How realistic is casual raiding?

[Blingy]

Also keep in mind some guilds are listed as casual on the previous page but do raid. I'm in Castle which is listed as casual. However we've been bat-phoning fairly often.

Recent targets include: Vindi, Severlous, Trak, WToV, Kelorek Dar, Innoruk (and other mini's), Cazic-Thule (and other mini's), ring 10, Venril Sathir, Halls of Testing.

[Bardp1999]

Unless you are unemployed or work from home raiding on P99 is not a feasible thing, anyone who says elsewise is either flat out lying or doesn't know.

You have to be able to log in during work hours and late-night or you will never keep your raid attendance high enough to actually bid on anything. There are not enough prime-time raid kills per week to keep RA and even then you have to be a no lifer (even keeping 10%-20% raid attendance is almost impossible unless you have gone full neckbeard).

[Keebz]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unless you are unemployed or work from home raiding on P99 is not a feasible thing, anyone who says elsewise is either flat out lying or doesn't know.

You have to be able to log in during work hours and late-night or you will never keep your raid attendance high enough to actually bid on anything. There are not enough prime-time raid kills per week to keep RA and even then you have to be a no lifer (even keeping 10%-20% raid attendance is almost impossible unless you have gone full neckbeard).

Windows are generally on the weekends these days, and we had 2 quakes last weekend. Assuming you work 9-5 M-F, you can make plenty of targets without stressing too much.

Also lots of guilds no longer require RA for much of anything. Just accrue DKP and bid like everyone else.

I get the impression you're not active in the current raid scene and are going off memories of p99 past.

[Fammaden]

Don't listen to these salty dipshits OP, you got the good answers early in the thread. Every single raid guild on both servers have people with jobs (not WFH) and responsibilities who are just fine enjoying raiding on their own schedule.

The raid schedules here are unforgiving in a general sense, but the raid guilds are not exclusionary. There's always more people needed even if your playtimes are just four hours in primetime or whatever, you're still wanted.

As far as RA, in Velious getting something like 10% isn't as bad as it sounds since the sheer number of raids and targets mean you just show up for what you can and over the month you're fine. But generally on P99 its not that big of a factor for membership anyway.

[PlsNoBan]

Lots of copium in this thread. P99 endgame is not casual friendly. It never has been and likely never will be.

[tadkins]

Originally Posted by PlsNoBan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lots of copium in this thread. P99 endgame is not casual friendly. It never has been and likely never will be.

This. Otherwise we wouldn't have guilds employing the shady tactics they do to get bosses, and we wouldn't have guilds be as elitist and exclusionary as they are. When you have a guild like Kingdom rejecting people thinking they're trying to "spy" on them, how can a person say that raiding on P99 is casual friendly?

[Erati]

Originally Posted by tadkins [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This. Otherwise we wouldn't have guilds employing the shady tactics they do to get bosses, and we wouldn't have guilds be as elitist and exclusionary as they are. When you have a guild like Kingdom rejecting people thinking they're trying to "spy" on them, how can a person say that raiding on P99 is casual friendly?

Sounds like your encountered a misunderstanding during your application but never seriously followed up to correct anything which likely all that it was.

If your character had access shared w others (I am just speculating I have no knowledge of your application), this might have sparked initial concerns. I dont recall hearing about any application terminated bc of speculation that anyone is a spy, this seems a bit of a broad stroke.

[Gloomlord]

All of my characters are guildless at the moment. And from the looks of it, it seems it's going to stay that way.

All of this can be remedied with instances, though it's not "classic".

[Jibartik]

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[Delekhan]

Quakes are far more frequent nowadays so socking windows late at night for raid content is now the exception, not the norm. If you play weekends you'll have access to a wide variety of raids as a casual player in any of the guilds. If you only play on weekdays, the raid options will be more limited as quakes generally occur during the weekends.

The changes in quake frequency have changed the overall tone to be more casual overall, I think. Many folks are content to capture Quake targets and are less concerned with natural spawns. That said the traditional have-nots on Green still poopsock with a high degree of urgency.