Holiday Open Raids!

[bitikan]

There will be a number of open raids taking place on Dec 25th and 26th, open to anyone level 55+ on the Green Server!

Dec 25
Venril Sathir
Statue of Rallos Zek and Avatar of War

Avatar of War is extremely difficult and we would encourage you to bring either a Cleric or high DPS class if available!

Dec 26
Severilous
Talendor
Gorenaire
Plane of Fear (All bosses on the spawn of Cazic-Thule)
Telkorenar (Non-Kos faction with Claws of Veeshan is required for this Raid)
Gozzrem
Ikatiar the Venom

There will be a spawn call for each target on the Project 1999 Discord:
https://discord.gg/p1999
In the 'Green General' Channel.
A minimum of 30 minutes will be offered for mobilization!

Rules
55+ (Please Bring Your Strongest Character!)
You are rolling on loot for the character you bring!
Attendance /who log will be captured at the start of the encounter
Loot will be randomed via a number assigned at the time
Raid Loot will be confirmed by multiple leaders before being awarded

We'd like to think the leadership of Castle, Safe Space, Force of Will, Fires of Heaven, Kingdom and Seal Team for making these raids possible

Happy Holidays to all of the Project 1999 community and we look forward to seeing you!

[Mazoku]

YES! Finally some open raids! Thank you for posting this and merry raiding to all!

[unsunghero]

I'm slightly too low to come but great idea

[tadkins]

Yay open raids! I'm glad they are happening again on some level. This post gives me hope for the future.

I don't have a 55+ character just yet but I'm hard at work leveling a rogue, so perhaps one day I can join one and contribute meaningfully to a kill. :D

[Delekhan]

Merry Christmas to all! Let's all bring good tidings and kill the Avatar of War today. As alluded to in the OP, AoW is an extremely difficult fight that requires a copious number of Clerics working together to keep the tank(s) alive. This encounter is all about the Clerics. In preparation for Avatar of War, I thought it would be helpful to post some information for our upcoming battle for those who have not participated in an AoW fight on a Cleric before.

Preparation


Create manual /target <tank> hotkeys for each tank listed in the tank chain (will be announced prior to engaging)
Create an /autoinventory hotkey and keep an open primary inventory slot for the modrods. Make a hotkey for the primary inventory slot as well.
Protection of the Glades, Symbol, Armor of Protection on yourself for modrod HP. Also, obtain a regen before the fight along with Clarity 2 and Gift of Brilliance. You want the largest mana pool possible and a lot of HP to eat mod rods
GINA is useful but not absolutely required. CH Chain will be fast, just be attentive and do nothing but watch the CH chain messages.
Turn down far clip plane and opacity to 0. Turn off all spell effects.
Disable trades in the Options window. This is to avoid errant mod rod trades that will change your target.
Get in a Bard group if you can.


During the Encounter


The CH chain time is 1 second or less for the entire fight, no exceptions.
The CH order is of the utmost importance, stay calm and be ready to cast CH immediately when your turn comes up. If you are 10th on the chain, you are getting ready to cast when #9 casts. Remember, the very act of pressing a key takes 1/3 of a second.
If the person ahead of you misses, cast. Avoid gaps and stalling of the chain at all costs, it's better to be early than late.
After each cast, click on a mod rod, then click /autoinventory and then eat your mod rod. It can be difficult to target, so always remember to click your tank macro after consuming each mod rod. If you and all other Clerics can master this pattern, AoW dies.
STAY CALM. The best AoW kills are the ones where everyone is calm and focused. If it becomes chaotic when a tank dies, let the chain settle down and get back into the rhythm do your best to stay in order after it starts to settle down.
Be ready for Tank swaps. When the raid leader calls for a tank swap, be ready to switch your macro. If the Tank dies, we restart the chain on the next tank.
OPTIONAL: Sit cast CH (click sit on the hotbar or your spellbook icon and again once CH is about to land). Only do this if you are 100% comfortable sit casting CH.


Good luck everyone! AoW is the ultimate classic EQ encounter. I hope to see you there!

Razimuth 60 Cleric - Green

[Ooloo]

What time these happening?

[boukk]

What time these happening?

3PM EST for VS.

[bitikan]

Current Start times are:

3pm EST -- Venril Sathir
9pm EST -- Statue of Rallos Zek / Avatar of War

We will phone mobilization about 30 mins prior to start time for both.

Look forward to seeing everyone!

Voice Comms will be in the p99 Discord so come hang out

[Whale biologist]

Green UN out there proving better things are possible.

Cheers and Happy Christmas! :)

[Jerri]

Why no Vulak

[sajbert]

Review of VS and Velk open raid portion:

Didn't win anything but fun fun fun/10.

[bitikan]

Still on for Statue / AOW at 9PM EST

Clerics and Melee DPS are the best classes to bring.

We understand that the majority of the loot interest is with Melee items, so if you bring a Cleric, you can specify that your are rolling for a Melee so long as it's 55+ and parked to loot.

[Shinko]

Personally I wanted fully open loot, that way people would bring the requirement classes over the class to get best odds at loot.

[Delekhan]

One tank AoW in ~3 minutes. Impressive work! Thank you all for coming and all of the clerics that came to help.

[Zarakk]

I told him in /tell and I'll post it here as well.

Really good job organizing the cleric chain, Razimuth. All of us having different macros and ways of working from multiple different guilds, all made to work successfully together in a few minutes, and get a single tank AOW kill on an open raid.

Well done, and to your credit.

~Feanturil / Jennica.

[bitikan]

Raz is the man!

More open raid goodness tomorrow. I think CT in particular is going to be a blast.

This is another fight where we need lots of Warriors and Clerics. Great loot for both to be had!

[unsunghero]

Green community best community

[Lightbringer55]

Anyone have any screenshots of the event?

[Delekhan]

Screenshot after the kill:

https://ibb.co/pzNMHsR

Thanks again all for attending, I had a lot of fun and thank you Jennica for the kind words. I'm really impressed with those clerics that chose to attend this raid. I regret I won't be able to attend the open raids today, good luck everyone!

[TrevarianX]

There goes the Christmas spirit. GM earthquake and here is Force of Will racing into Fear by itself, saying open rapids are off. Is this going on everywhere now? There goes my slim chance at epic piece as a non-raider SK

[BlackBellamy]

Holiday Open Raids have been cancelled by the P99 Staff.

Thank you all for attending the ones that were available before the feeding frenzy began!

[Debt]

Screenshot after the kill:

https://ibb.co/pzNMHsR

Thanks again all for attending, I had a lot of fun and thank you Jennica for the kind words. I'm really impressed with those clerics that chose to attend this raid. I regret I won't be able to attend the open raids today, good luck everyone!


What UI is that? I didn't know they were working yet! wooo!!

[torpori]

There goes the Christmas spirit. GM earthquake and here is Force of Will racing into Fear by itself, saying open rapids are off. Is this going on everywhere now? There goes my slim chance at epic piece as a non-raider SK

I suspect we can thank the people trying to make things like the white scale - clearly bard only - All/All at the last minute out of their own greed. Or demanding Vulak be added to the list etc.

If I was a GM and saw that on-brand greedy BS, I would have done something to call it off too.

[Lightbringer55]

For many of us, this was a chance to actually participate in content that hasn't been an option with the p99 raid scene. As a casual player I was really disheartened to see the open raids called off and it's hard to imagine this was just a miscalculation by the server staff. The organization that people put into the open raids was really admirable. I got to participate with VS but missed the AoW last night and it's amazing to see the screenshot posted and all those people participating and more amazing to see people from top tier guilds contributing to make the open raids possible! Some of us play this game for nostalgia and the experience and it has disheartening to lose the chance to take on raid mobs that I haven't personally participated in raiding against since classic that die immediately upon spawning on these servers. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to know what the rationale for the quake was when open raids were planned.

[bitikan]

Staff did not call off the open raids.

We're going to work on rescheduling all of the Open Raid content for what I'm hoping will be the next naturally spawning cycle (so in about a week).

Sorry for any confusion and momentum lost today and stay tuned for details about the reschedule. I'll edit the original post as they emerge.

[Jimjam]

I suspect we can thank the people trying to make things like the white scale - clearly bard only - All/All at the last minute out of their own greed. Or demanding Vulak be added to the list etc.

If I was a GM and saw that on-brand greedy BS, I would have done something to call it off too.

“I really need an int cloak on my warrior”.