serious post i don't know if you realize 'hof but the best way to do this would be to approach various leaderships in game. look at how free trakanons for divinity worked out with their huge dumptruck of dog poop thread. if that thread had never been posted they probably would have gotten a shot at the dargon

tldr forums are a cesspool

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also serious posts include caps

thats why i never use them

I voted no because I dont have time to be apart of the raid scene, but I think you have a good idea Tasslehopf. If you really want to make it server wide, I think you should allow TMO members. Random loot/needs before greeds would be just as valid with one of their players participating. Plus fun for everyone = good for the server.

haha /highfive that was it :D

Ive got 4 or 5 59-60 toons that I would park around norrath to assist on kills with, however I would probably only respond to like 1 in 10 batphones. Also you would have to have absolutely nothing to do with coordinating and running such an operation tasslehof since as your forum reputation clearly shows, you are to much of a queen to turn something like this into anything more than a few rnf threads of the same worn out complaints you always rehash.

Prolly will be a group effort if there is enough interest in it to make it worth undertaking. I'm sorry you feel that way but this isn't rants and flames so take your pot shots there. Not trying to have my thread shitted up, thanks.

I remember one specific barbraid where we were doing the boss in plane of innovation. It was VERY ugly with so many players lol but it was so much fun anyway. I think although the poll is locked in at dead even there may be enough players interested in this. I'm going to start asking around to certain guild's leadership if they want to participate. If you have a guild who would want to get in on this PM me or whatever.

Here is a serious idea for you tassle: Imagine for a second that you allow anyone from Divinity, Taken, Rapture, BDA, etc who wishes to become an honorary member of Forceful Entry. They would function exactly like normal members (app for a week or two, be on the batphone, post on the forums, collect DKP for raid attendance and tracking, spend DKP on items) except they would keep their old guild tags. It's exactly what you are proposing in this thread, but reusing FE's existing machinery. I think this would have two huge advantages for you.

First, you'd get back your old people's guild reputation. Last fall TMO was the evil empire and FE was the rebel alliance trying to break their stranglehold on the raid scene. Now FE is simply another and less successful raid guild. However, if people from the other casual guilds were raiding alongside FE, they would rapidly redevelop those attachments. TMO would be even more the bad guys (not that they care).

Second, I'm sure that even if you restricted the honorary memberships to level 60 toons, between the 7-8 casual guilds you could pick up 20-25 people at least - thats only 3 people per guild. And if things worked out you'd have more people than you know what to do with.

What you are directly proposing in this thread will never work, because for an eq raid to succeed you need a main tank, a good pull squad, and a good raid leader. Thats like 6 people tops; the rest can be warm bodies as long as they have a marginal capacity to follow directions (esp since you don't even need CH chains in Kunark).

Really good suggestion, loraen.

The issue is that I'm not even quite sure where the leadership of FE falls on this topic of discussion. I mainly just posted this to kind of get a feel for what others thought. What I was hoping is that we could just literally form a coalition among the servers guilds.


Like you suggested you really only need like 6 to 8 people to be on point and aware of whats going on. What I was hoping for was that we could all have our own guilds who operate on their own as usual.

We could pick 2 to 3 targets per week to just have people in the coalition park out at. Since I'm sure most guilds that raid have a batphone, we can just organize a small batphone for each guilds representatives to join. Representatives will be responsible for sending the call out to their respective guilds and making sure that their guildies are parked at the right targets throughout the week

As far as tracking goes and rewarding folks/keeping track of contributions that's where things get complicated as you suggested. I like the idea you propose I'm just not really in a position to approve such a measure. Id really like to hear where other guilds stand on this idea.


I dont really see an easier way for more casual folks to get involved with end game raiding. The idea of zerging shit down sucks, but in my opinion for the folks who need epic peices or gear having to sacrifice RL shit to get those items is worse.

Really though there is so many ways to do this, could even work out a system for rotating which guild gets epic peices and that way they could distribute loot the way they want. Anyone else got some good suggestions that we could discuss further?

Loot distribution and coordination would be the main challenges for a project like this.

Anyone have any simple suggestions that may work and hasn't been discussed already?


I was thinking if this was an idea limited to a few guilds then a rotation for first pick of loot could be worked out, with each guild awarding loot themselves. This would just become an issue if unguilded or smaller guilds wanted to participate. So what are some other ideas short of creating an entire dkp page/roster dedicated to this?