FreaklyCreak
07-24-2006, 04:49 AM
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#ffcc00>*** Guild Raid Revamp ***<BR><BR></FONT></STRONG>- Guild raids have been completely redone and will help guilds get into raiding.<BR>- Each raid is Group x2, and will scale according to your raid's level.<BR>- In order to advance to the second raid, you must complete the first. To get to the third, you must complete the second, etc. After completing all five new raids, you will be able to do them in any order.<BR>- The raids are designed as follows:<BR> * Raid 1: Add Management (NPCs spawn every X seconds and attack raid members)<BR> * Raid 2: Aggro Management (Hate list shuffling or adding hate for subclass type)<BR> * Raid 3: AE Stun / Stifle (2-3 sec duration)<BR> * Raid 4: Resistance Fight (NPC uses powerful AE of type X)<BR> * Raid 5: AE Charm (become the pet of the enemy!)<BR>- Rewards for defeating the bosses within each raid will vary based on your level range.<BR>- Up to level 50, you will receive rare harvestable items, recipe books, and spell scrolls.<BR>- At level 50, 60, and 70 molds and patterns may drop off boss creatures.These patterns will be for very light, light, medium, or heavy armor. Examining the patterns will give you a quest, and upon turning it in to a Quartermaster, you will receive a piece of armor.<BR>- To begin, get two groups together into a raid and speak with City Registrar Glamis in Freeport or Royal Accountant Fowler in Qeynos.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bravo! SoE! This is a GREAT change and I want to salute you in making it not only tons more fun(from what im reading), but also making it a times two raid and making then each diffrent so that guilds just starting in raiding have a chance to learn diffrent styles!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Question1: Will the quest armor(- At level 50, 60, and 70 molds and patterns may drop off boss creatures.These patterns will be for very light, light, medium, or heavy armor. Examining the patterns will give you a quest, and upon turning it in to a Quartermaster, you will receive a piece of armor.) from these molds be slightly better in stats or have a proc that will be worth or equal to rare crafted armor? If not, then its not worth it and people will not like this. (I don't exspect the guild raid molds and patterns to be as rewarding in t7 raids as the ones from non-guild raid zones, AKA relic armor, but atleast slightly lower then relic armor)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Question2: Does this quest armor only drop from Guild Raid Instances? If so, bravo, this makes it easier for a 50-70 level member to get better gear without taking on the tougher epics from instances or contested that the guild isnt ready for. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Question3: Will the zones and zone names be the same as the old ones? Even if you don't change the zone or the zone's raid format I still think they will be great fun.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Question4: Explain -- To begin, get two groups together into a raid and speak with City Registrar Glamis in Freeport or Royal Accountant Fowler in Qeynos. Do we have to be in a x2 set up in order to get keyed for the zone? I'm hoping not because i would like it to be that we can have one person grab the raid by being keyed for it ahead of time and everyone is just able to log in and meet at the entry spot for the raid zone.(Either that or each person having to hail the NPC just like the new NPC outside the 20-50 raid instance in order to get keyed for the instance would be acceptable, although if you make it just one person who needs to be keyed for the instance then it would be alot more fun because you could have Freeportain raids being done by Qeynosians(on PvE ofcourse).)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Suggestions:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Slap together 3-5 items per tier and per raid for levels 20-50. This would be 60-100 new/old items that would be treasured-fabled and have pretty good stats and be fun to use. You really don't have to do anything fancy IMO if you make new items. Since this is just adjusting old content to make it more fun then you can just add in some stuff that has small chances of droping in other zones already. If you want to make something new, then (since this is just editing of old content) i don't think anyone would mind if you used the same fabric/metal patterns as seen on other armor already in game. But sweet items might be fun addition also =D</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-As far as i've noticed there are several diffrent named per instance in the current guild raids, for the resistance raid try tossing it up a little and having each diffrent epic named have completely diffrent damage types.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-I suspect that in EoF you will add more even more guild instances for raids and more contested for levels 20-50. Bravo, if that is for intent.(Otherwise I'd suggest it)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-If it is only one person who needs to be keyed for the instance then there would need to be a set of progression for each city. Example: The guild Spirit Callers has completed Qeynosian Raids 1,2, and 3 but only completed Freeportian raids 1 and 2. (Letting us be able to access both sets of raids via the one person being keyed method would allow for more raids to be done for everyone in the guild)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Guild Raid Tracking Tab- Have a new tab on the guild window that tracks you guild progress through these new raids. It can show last time anyone in the guild attempted to try these "training" raids and which one they tried. Have it look something like the current zone timer that we use for personal use.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Have it look something like this.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Status Last Attempted</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Raid#1 Unlocked xx/xx/xx xx<img src="/smilies/1069449046bcd664c21db15b1dfedaee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />x</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Raid#2 Locked(Timer Locked) xx/xx/xx xx<img src="/smilies/1069449046bcd664c21db15b1dfedaee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />x</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Raid#3 Locked(Timer Locked) xx/xx/xx xx<img src="/smilies/1069449046bcd664c21db15b1dfedaee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />x</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Raid#4 Locked(Pending Raid 3 Completion)</DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Raid#5 Locked(Pending Raid 4 Completion)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-Don't allow exiles to get guild raids! According to what i've read they already have an advantage over people who have choosen a side as they can raid with all 24 diffrent classes.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>