Raiding in FA

[Mharz]

Hello everyone.

In the event you might have missed the memo I've been named the Master tasked with organizing raiding in FA.  This means I'll be working to organize raids for FA members.  Working with me you can help make the experience fun for everyone.

I'm making this thread to gather some information about raiding interest in FA.  If you're interested in raiding I would ask you to respond to this thread with the following information:

1.  Your class and desired role.  For example:  Jedi Guardian, Tank.  To plan a good raid we need certain roles filled.  I need to find out which roles are well manned and which are in demand.  This is critical to forming a group.  Also knowing your class will let me know what buffs you can bring to a raid.

2.  Your availability to raid.  Please give times in the server timezone.  For instance M,W,F 6 pm to 10 pm.  We'll form raids when we have at least 8 people available and willing to raid at a consistent time.

3.  Your level of commitment to a raid team on a scale of 1 to 5.  With 1 being you would show up most of the time and 5 being you cancel holidays and birthdays to clear content.  I plan to use this information to group like minded players in groups.  If you're light hearted and want to casually enjoy raid content you probably shouldn't be in a group with hardcore raiders.

4.  Your raiding experience (be honest) on a scale of 1 to 5.  With 1 being you've never raided and 5 being you should have been paid for all the hours you've put in clearing content.

My urgency about this is high.  The faster I get your response the faster we'll form raid groups and start to push content.  If anyone has questions, concerns or if you care to share your thoughts about raiding feel free to drop me a PM here or catch me in TS sometime when I'm free.

Update 1/22/12:  

Some raid facts:

Raid Size/Comps
Generally a 8 man raid group should contain the following:
Tanks: 2
Healers: 2
DPS: 4

Generally a 16 man raid group should contain the following:
Tanks: 2
Healers:4
DPS:10

Lockouts:
Lockouts are shared between level of difficulty, meaning that if you do 8 man raid you'll be saved to the 16 man version as well.  However you can do an 8 man hard mode AND an 8 man normal mode.

Consumables:
Each class has a main stat.  Every raider should come to a raid night with a supply of stims appropriate for their class for the night.  Every pull while working on an encounter should be done with everyone in the group using the proper stim.  Folks with Biochem can help out a lot by making stims prior to raid.

Class Buffs:
Every class brings a buff.  For raids, we want at least one of every class in a raid to get the maximum number of buffs to make sure we're at our best.  In addition, every raid needs at least 1 Guardian for Armor Sunders.  This is a debuff that a guardian applies to foes that reduces their armor and makes them easier to damage.  This could be a Guardian tank or a Guardian DPS.

Update 1/25/12

Based on membership response I'm suggesting the following Raid Times and Raid Groups.  The Raid Leader is the primary point of contact.

Group 1:  16 man on weeknights T,W,Th 8-11 pm Server Time.
Raid Leader and Point of Contact: Mharz

Tanks
Mharz - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Lithium - Consular Tank
Makuren - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Millhouse - Knight (Guardian) Tank

Healers
Strod - Consular Healer
Trofles - Smuggler Healer
Youkai - Consular Healer
Eethality - Trooper Healer

DPS
XfingersX - Knight (Sentinel) DPS
Keeloth - Consular DPS (Ranged)
Aculeus - Consular DPS (Melee)
Longboard - Knight (Sentinel) DPS (Melee)
Fuse - Consular (Melee) DPS
Tecknik - Trooper DPS
Erathaol - Consular DPS
Requiem - Smuggler DPS
Lan'obi - Consular DPS

Group 2:  8 man on weeknights T,W,Th 11-2 am Server Time
Raid Leader and Point of Contact: Tbone

Tanks
Pendas - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Roryn - Consular (Shadow) Tank

Healers
Anamodiel - Consular Healer
Sared - Smuggler Healer

DPS
Tbone - Knight (Sentinel) DPS
Broin - Consular DPS
Zephix - Trooper DPS
Setun - Trooper DPS
ArchNemesis - Smuggler DPS
Ratio - Consular DPS

Group 3:  8 man on weekends Day and Time TBD.
Raid Leader and Point of Contact: External Error

Tanks
Rumor - Trooper Tank
Balance - Trooper Tank
Saint - Consular (Shadow) Tank

Healers
Myth - Trooper Healer
External Error - Consular Healer

DPS
Baobinga - Consular DPS (Melee)
JazzyC - Smuggler DPS
Ket - Smuggler DPS
NoCry - Consular (Melee) DPS
Jeyk - Knight (Sentinel) DPS

Raiders

Currently the following people posted and mentioned interest in raiding.

We are overstaffed on Tanks and Critically Understaffed on healers.

Tanks: 10

Mharz - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Millhouse - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Amarantus - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Pendas - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Makuren - Knight (Guardian) Tank
Roryn - Consular Tank
Lithium - Consular Tank
Saint - Consular (Shadow) Tank
Rumor - Trooper Tank
Balance - Trooper Tank

Healers: 8

Troffles - Smuggler Healer
Youkai - Consular Healer
Sared - Smuggler Healer
Anamoodiel - Consular Healer
Mythrillian - Trooper Healer
Strod - Consular Healer
ExternalError - Consular Healer
Eethality - Trooper Healer

DPS: 17 (11 Ranged and 6 melee)

Broin - Consular DPS(Ranged)
Keeloth - Consular DPS (Ranged)
Aculeus - Consular DPS (Melee)
Longboard - Knight (Sentinel) DPS (Melee)
Baobinga - Consular DPS (Melee)
Tbone - Knight (Sentinel) DPS (Melee)
Fuse - Consular DPS (Melee)
JazzyC - Smuggler DPS (Ranged)
Ratio - Consular DPS (Ranged)
Requiem - Smuggler DPS (Ranged)
Ket - Smuggler DPS (Ranged)
Lan'obi - Consular DPS (Ranged)
Erathaol - Consular DPS (Ranged)
Zephix - Trooper DPS (Ranged)
Setun - Trooper DPS (Ranged)
ArchNemesis - Smuggler DPS (Ranged)
XfingersX - Knight (Sentinel) DPS (Melee)

[Strod]

1. Jedi Consular, Heals and DPS

2. Monday - Thursday 8PM - 3AM

3. 4

4. 5

[Keeloth]

1. Sage, DPS (have some points in seer so can offheal as well)
2. Varied.  I usually don't get the same days off from week to week.   I can pretty much guarantee I'll be available 9pm on, though.
3. If it's a raid that I can make and I've said I'll be there, I'll be there.  I'll put a 3 due to the fact that a lack of steady schedule makes it diffilut to raid at a consistent time.
4. 2.  Did some 40 mans and 20 mans in vanilla WoW before I quit.

[Aculeus]

1.Consular, Shadow, melee DPS

2. 7pm to 11pm FA time

3.  4

4. 5, most of my PvE raid experience was in WoW, cleared all of vanilla, BC cleared all the early raids then stopped raiding when my guild was starting BT, when Wrath first came out cleared all of naxx, then took a break did not see much raid content in cata.

[Trofles]

1. Scoundrel Healing
2. 4-1 FA time all days
3. 4
4. 5

[Ominari]

Youkai
Sage, Healer
Anytime
5
5

[xFingersx]

1. Sent. DPS

2. Any weekday at whatever time..

3. 4.5

4. 4

[Sared]

1. Scoundrel, Sawbones (Heals)

2. Anytime between now and Armageddon.

3. 5

4. 5

[Anamodiel]

Jedi Sage, Seer

Time: M Tu W & Th. Once March hits Thursday will be out of the question. Anytime evenings, as long as its scheduled and I can plan homework around it.

Commitment: 4. Every once in a while I will have a test. I have a light schedule, so it shouldn't be too bad, but I'm not going to skip studying for school to raid.

Raid Experience: 1. I'm a damn good healer, so I can make up for lack of experience just fine.

[Mythrillian]

1. Trooper, Combat Medic

2. Varies but later in the afternoon and anytime im not busy on the weekends.

3. 4 (Only Thing more important to me is PvP) (I also have a 1 year old which throws me of schedule from time to time.

4. 5  I have healed Raids in many games from EQ to Wow....ETC. (I watch streams daily and generally know or strive to know all the fights, when i don't i ask before hand)

[Heironymus]

RORYN
Shadow, tank (preferably)

Anytime after 830 est. so after 730 fat?

4. Sometimes stuff gets in the way but more often than not if it's scheduled I'll be there.

5. Tanked in wow for much end game content.


I'm not 50 yet but will be in the new few weeks. Rl has been getting in the way. But once 50 I'm all over it.

[Longboard]

1. Your class and desired role. - Jedi Sentinel Melee DPS

2. Your availability to raid. - M-F 7:00pm till 2:00AM FA time. Weekends all day. Work and Family aggro could alter that though

3. Your level of commitment to a raid team on a scale of 1 to 5. - 4 - If I commit, I will be there!

4. Your raiding experience (be honest) on a scale of 1 to 5. 3, maybe 4 now.

[Baobinga]

1. Consular-Shadow-Balance DPS but I can tank down the line if DPS doesn't work out for me.

2. I have a busy college schedule this semester so I will update my availability as I get into the semester (gotta see what kind of workload I'll be working with) but right now I know for sure Fri, Sat & Sun are open.

3. 4 if I get committed to a raid group I'm there.

4. 5 I have been playing mmo's for years. In swg I had 1 jedi precu and 3 jedi in the cu. I have played wow since it came out and recently have been raid leading a guild group every week for the past 3 months. I've been 7/7 FL, and 2/7 Heroic. Currently 5/8 in normal dragon soul and while raid leading and telling ppl what to do during the encounter I still pull 30k dps.

[Tbone]

1- Jedi Sentinel, Melee DPS

2- Monday: all day and night, Tues-Wednesday: 10:45pm onward, Thurs-Sat: 11:15pm onward, Sunday: 10:15 p.m. onward. I can also do all afternoons currently if they end before 5 p.m. *Note: The problem with my schedule is it is inconsistent. The times I've listed are the times I'm available EVEN if I have work. Many times I won't, however.

3- 4 (can't get out of work)

4- 3ish

[Fuse]

Also, if your name in game is different than your forum name, please post that as well!


1. Fuse: Shadow DPS. Can respec to Tank, but would require me to go back to pre-lvl50 gear.
Also working on building up Fuze, a guardian which will be a dedicated PvE tank.

2. Most evenings. Most reliable between 11pm and 2am each night.

3. 4

4. 4