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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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Here is a serious idea for you tassle: Imagine for a second that you allow anyone from Divinity, Taken, Rapture, BDA, etc who wishes to become an honorary member of Forceful Entry. They would function exactly like normal members (app for a week or two, be on the batphone, post on the forums, collect DKP for raid attendance and tracking, spend DKP on items) except they would keep their old guild tags. It's exactly what you are proposing in this thread, but reusing FE's existing machinery. I think this would have two huge advantages for you.
First, you'd get back your old people's guild reputation. Last fall TMO was the evil empire and FE was the rebel alliance trying to break their stranglehold on the raid scene. Now FE is simply another and less successful raid guild. However, if people from the other casual guilds were raiding alongside FE, they would rapidly redevelop those attachments. TMO would be even more the bad guys (not that they care).
Second, I'm sure that even if you restricted the honorary memberships to level 60 toons, between the 7-8 casual guilds you could pick up 20-25 people at least - thats only 3 people per guild. And if things worked out you'd have more people than you know what to do with.
What you are directly proposing in this thread will never work, because for an eq raid to succeed you need a main tank, a good pull squad, and a good raid leader. Thats like 6 people tops; the rest can be warm bodies as long as they have a marginal capacity to follow directions (esp since you don't even need CH chains in Kunark).
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Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99
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Really good suggestion, loraen.
The issue is that I'm not even quite sure where the leadership of FE falls on this topic of discussion. I mainly just posted this to kind of get a feel for what others thought. What I was hoping is that we could just literally form a coalition among the servers guilds.
Like you suggested you really only need like 6 to 8 people to be on point and aware of whats going on. What I was hoping for was that we could all have our own guilds who operate on their own as usual.
We could pick 2 to 3 targets per week to just have people in the coalition park out at. Since I'm sure most guilds that raid have a batphone, we can just organize a small batphone for each guilds representatives to join. Representatives will be responsible for sending the call out to their respective guilds and making sure that their guildies are parked at the right targets throughout the week
As far as tracking goes and rewarding folks/keeping track of contributions that's where things get complicated as you suggested. I like the idea you propose I'm just not really in a position to approve such a measure. Id really like to hear where other guilds stand on this idea.
I dont really see an easier way for more casual folks to get involved with end game raiding. The idea of zerging shit down sucks, but in my opinion for the folks who need epic peices or gear having to sacrifice RL shit to get those items is worse.
Really though there is so many ways to do this, could even work out a system for rotating which guild gets epic peices and that way they could distribute loot the way they want. Anyone else got some good suggestions that we could discuss further?
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Tasslehof, why don't you talk to Morphius? He is doing exactly what loraen has suggested and was made an officer for this reason. Maybe you two can work together on getting it up and running. I'm down for the idea, but I believe every raider should be interviewed, prove they have the resist gear and what's needed to mobilize. I'm not giving some random Taken or whatever guilds member an epic just because they follow us around on raids. They better "DO DAMAGE!" and not be there to make our lives harder.
A group of unorganized part time scrubs with absolutely no real leadership, level, or gear would be worse than watching a fraps of TMO and FE competing on a daily basis. We cause enough trains on our own. Go Team Scrub would be raid banned every other raid.