I'm New, Raid Questions

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

The lengths you people will go for pixels..................... Do you guys ever step back and look at what you're doing objectively? It's pretty god damn absurd.

In real life, I was a neurosurgeon, but am currently running for public office. I find time.

[Folly]

I'm not a troll...assuming thats what some people think. I played vanilla wow maybe a year ago(first time ever playing wow) and I enjoyed it, its just slow peaceful grinding with some social stuff. But the strict raiding attendance was a bit of a tun off when I'm sorta having a torn life where I wanna play games and I wanna have a life and hang with friends at night. anyways then my brother recently found this game server and suggested we look into it.

Alot of the informative posts as well as opinions have been very helpful.

I wanted to know another thing, on the Red server which is open pvp. Are your items that drop when you die lootable by other players?
So if you get killed by a player, they take your stuff. Is that how it goes?

[Ravager]

No matter what people say, raiding here is a real time sink. But then again, this entire game is a time sink. Even if you're playing one of the more desired classes, just finding an exp group somewhere can take all of three hours. But raiding is possible in a short time, with some planning and parking. There's also mobs like Ixiblat that drop decent loot and are spawnable. Just know that if three hours is all you have and you want the best mobs, you'll be spending all of your time buffing, parking and recharging clickies for mobs you won't be on for 1/8 of the time. But when you get to 60, there really isn't much else to do.

[Fanguru]

You can park your raiding toon then go play any other toon.

[LethClaypool]

It's possible to play casually and raid. I've been doing it on and off since I started back in 2011. It's just all about finding the guild that suits your needs. For the most part people have pretty much covered it. You're not going to see some of the high end stuff unless you're around and an upper end guild invites you along (which I've had happen several times).

Planes are fun though and pretty easy to break into with a lax play schedule. I can personal speak highly of Knights Who Say Ni and Anonymous, as I was a member of both at various times, and Sea Bass is another good one.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What about people that tried Red and leveled to 56 and realized it's a 1 guild playground and no real pvp or contesting over raid targets ever happens? Or if it does its an extremely rare event. Server is poop. Wipe it clean and/or bring on Teams99. Red too topheavy and dominated by the same group of neckbeards for years and that's very unlikely to ever change at this rate.

Not really sure quitters ought compete D: ^^My posts addressed OPs question. Red certainly caters to a variety of audiences. There are peeps there for the classic (me!) peeps there for competition, peeps there for loots, peeps there for alts and peeps there to be annoying among other things.

I've only been there 2 months, but fail to understand those who bemoan a lack of competition while refusing to compete themselves. Having a behemoth like Empire as an adversary is a much more challenging and exciting adversary than a bunch of smaller guilds you can steam roll. Those who refuse to take up the fight have already lost it. Empire's dominance is not immutable. It will just require tremendous, sustained and coordinated effort to unseat ^^

[jcr4990]

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

Not really sure quitters ought compete D: ^^My posts addressed OPs question. Red certainly caters to a variety of audiences. There are peeps there for the classic (me!) peeps there for competition, peeps there for loots, peeps there for alts and peeps there to be annoying among other things.

I've only been there 2 months, but fail to understand those who bemoan a lack of competition while refusing to compete themselves. Having a behemoth like Empire as an adversary is a much more challenging and exciting adversary than a bunch of smaller guilds you can steam roll. Those who refuse to take up the fight have already lost it. Empire's dominance is not immutable. It will just require tremendous, sustained and coordinated effort to unseat ^^

I think you drastically underestimate the futility of attempting to compete against a massive zerg that's collecting free Velious raid pixels every day that goes by. Do you really think any other guild with their smattering of Kunark raid gear (at best) is going to compete? Everyone that's geared is already in Empire. Many guilds have tried and history has shown its nearly impossible. Only way Empire loses #1 spot (By a HUGE margin) is if the leadership quits playing and they fall apart from the inside OR get bant for RMT. That's the only reason Nihilum isn't still dominating right now. But in either of those cases a new juggernaut will just emerge in their place. Red99 will always be a 1 guild playground unless theres a wipe or somehow the server pop magically doubles or some other equally unlikely event.