Open Sky Raid - Sunday 3rd March - 7PM EST

[Eabon]

Hey there,

I am going to be putting on another open Sky raid this Sunday. As with the previous two raids, attendance will be somewhat restricted and will be limited to only those who have contacted and heard from me personally beforehand. This is due to certain restrictions/limits I'm going to be exercising according to class and level (55+ preferred). I'm doing this because (i) Sky can be a difficult zone conceptually and logistically, and the less people present the more manageable it is to organise and coordinate the raid, and (ii) certain characters (due solely to their class and/or level) may be capable of contributing only very minimally to the raid's success. This means that not everybody who's interested in coming to the raid will be able to come. I'm really sorry about this, and I regret it a lot, but at this early stage in these open Sky raids it's going to be a lot easier to make these raids successful (i.e., clearing the entire zone week after week) if the raid make-up is limited only to those people who can make large and/or unique contributions. Having said this, if you have any interest in the raid whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me (according to the little instructions below) and I will try and get back to you as soon as I can. I'm hoping that at some time in maybe the next 3 or 4 weeks - when the core of people attending these raids have a little more experience doing this - I'll be able to open up attendance in a much more general and less restricted way.

Port ups will be available starting from ~6PM EST at the West Commons spires and we will be looking to get started some time before 7PM EST, whenever the majority of the raid is available and present. We will be looking to replicate last week, when we cleared the entire zone. At no point will we be trivialising the zone with charmed pets, and especially not with Sirran.


For those who wish to attend:
Those who are interested in joining the raid (THIS INCLUDES PEOPLE WHO HAVE ATTENDED IN PREVIOUS WEEKS) should please send me a PM which contains their (i) in-game character name, (ii) their class, (iii) their level, (iv) the likelihood that they'll be able to make the raid, and (v) whether or whether not they have a key corpse in the zone that will be available on the night.
I am going to be aiming for between 25 and 35 people on the night, and so if interest exceeds this level I will be making executive decisions on the basis of class demand and level.


Loot rules will be as follows:
(i) Boss Drops and No Drops
All No Drop/Boss mob quest items that are contended for by more than one person will be rolled on, /ran 100. After having won an item that was (i) contended for and rolled on by at least one other person or (ii) is going to be used in earnest as opposed to as a novelty item taken just for the sake of having it not rot, that person will not be permitted to contend for any further items, and will only be allowed to loot another item if that item was otherwise going to rot entirely.
No Drop items that drop from multiple bosses and trash mobs (such as class haste belts, INT caster bracelets, the Treant Tear, the Weight of Gods, and the Stein of Flowing Ichor) will not be counted in the same category as Boss-dropped No Drop Quest Items. For instance, somebody who loots a Treant Tear will not be barred from competing for a No Drop druid quest piece from Lord.

(ii) Droppables
All trash droppables will be master-looted and collected by several pre-assigned people. At the end of the raid each master-looter will link in an open channel every droppable that they looted so that the entire raid can see. Those people who already have the No Drop piece for a particular quest (either from earlier in the raid, or from another raid entirely) will then have the opportunity to claim any droppables that go with that same quest. As these raids are going to be a regular occurrence for at least the next little while, any droppables not claimed by those finishing quests will be banked for later use by open raid regulars.



A Few Little Notes In Closing...

# Just to reiterate, those that are interested in coming on the raid this week should read the above section "For those who wish to attend" and follow those instructions re. sending me a PM. This applies also to those who have attended in the past, because I cannot read minds, and I do not know who from previous raids will be available for this raid specifically.

# These raids will have absolutely nothing to do with TMO besides the fact that the person leading it, and a few of those attending, happen to be members. I am not organising these raids as part of, or on behalf of, the TMO leadership; I have absolutely nothing to do with the current TMO leadership, and these open raids will be entirely independent from the TMO leadership. They should not be interpreted as some sort of positive representation or reflection upon TMO. They are simply going to take place because one guy and a few of his friends think that open Sky raids might be a pretty good thing for the server as a whole.

# Zero attention will be paid to peoples' guildtags, absolutely zero discrimination on the basis of guildtags will occur, and everybody (space on the raid pending) will be welcome. Your tags mean NOTHING to me; rather, it is your willingness and ability to cooperate and get along with everybody else at the raid, while fulfilling your individual jobs, that I care about.

[Chloroform]

Woot!

[Elmarnieh]

I'm in, PM sent.

[Eabon]

Will reply to PMs some time between now and lateish Saturday night.

[ardikus]

Let's down EoV again!

[skorge]

Good luck guys!