Heroes of Swords and Boards » Kunark raid targets and the schedule

Jools · 5/21/2019 10:29 am

I am curious how Kunark targets will fit into our raid schedule. Obviously, as we gear up, our current targets are going down faster and faster, eventually giving us time for more targets. But i am wondering what the main plan is? Like are we going to add a raid day or just pick the best targets we can hit in our current schedule? How are we going to incorporate epic fights? Obviously chardok runs will be a priority for cleric click sticks so will that be done during raid times or Fend For Yourself runs

Burta · 5/21/2019 1:16 pm

Ultimately beerd will make the final call on this. But my thinking is right now fear takes us about 2-2.5 hours to do. Thats all 3 golems, draco and ct. Hate takes us about the same with all the mini's down and Inny. Sky "can" be done by us through the bees in an hour or so when not farming the lord. And our friday night phinny, yael, and dragons run is about 2.5 hours currently.

Once kunark comes out we not only should be geared better then we are right now but we should have 5-10 more lvls on everyone by then. That should easily shave atleast an hour to an hour and a half off each raid we have now. Not only will we be killing the trash mobs quicker to get into position on the bosses and minis but we wont need as much prep time or down time once we get used to killing each mob. People will know their roles and where to position at and we wont have to go over everything so much.

So maybe by then we can look into combining raid nights. Do the phinny and the gang then hit sky afterwards and do hate and fear back to back on a saturday. That would open up sunday and wednesday for kunark stuff. I think 4 nights a week to raid is plenty so looking at how best to use our time.

I know people dont like farming the lord in sky but for now that's some of the best loot we can get for the time spent killing him. We dont have much more time to worry about it so please just bear with us while we get everyone we can equipped.

The other matter is we are still building up our raid force. It seems every raid night we have someone new join us raiding. Thats great right now. But eventually we want to get to the point where we have 72 raiders show up for every raid with no alts or box's or members. When we get to that point then raiding and getting loot will take a huge leap for us. We are working that way so please keep recruiting and helping the lower lvls get caught up. This is one of the reasons sky takes so long as every week now we have to spend time keying a few people up. Once kunark hits we dont have to worry about that and can call them up to us.

Raids will get done faster and we will have more time to hit more once people start lvl'ing again and gearing up with the new gear. My hope is within 3 weeks or so of kunark opening we should take a big jump in what we can do and how long it takes us. Should have a nice steady raiding schdule by then.

Jools · 5/22/2019 8:07 am

All good news to me. As much as i want to go live in sebilis once kunark drops, i think i am going to focus on helping clerics farm shards. Clicky sticks will be an even bigger impact on raid downtime than other gear and levels.