Helping new players is extremely important. I try to take a moment and join quick farming groups when I can.

Skoodge wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 7:22pm:


We have absolutely nothing against The Hand of Death. You guys fill an important role in helping new players learn a little about the game, and it's one that many of your members do well. There's a lot of value in that.

Most of the relatively long standing members of the guild who I've ran with seem like genuinely nice dudes. I can totally appreciate you guys without sharing your style of play, and I do.

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You guys say that like the problem is the players are bad. Most of the time its just that there aren't enough geared players on to do r1, and even if there are, a critical role like a tank or healer is missing.

The way timers work, you are encouraged to get the timers started ASAP. Thats why a lot of people settle for LH or even LN raids when they cant get a party geared enough for r1.

A lot of geared players dont post or join LFMs. That kinda makes it hard to get r1 LFMs raids going in the first place. If half your party is at 1k hp or below, you are probably not going to pull off r1. Sure, you can get rid of the undergeared players. How many hours do you want to spend sitting around hoping that some geared players join your LFM? Especially when they are telling you "our guild did it the other day" or "i dont join pugs"? Assuming they even bother to reply to you at all that is.

Now if you are in a party where everyone is in full legendary gear, have all roles covered and somehow still failing...I don't know, r1 FOTP or whatever is considered easy....then yes, you absolutely should stop and figure out what the hell is going wrong...and fix it.

But with the shortage of players, you cant just "fix" a shortage of geared players, unless you just happen to have a full raid party's worth of geared players on that are always on at the same time, at cap, that never TRs...but that's basically a raid static anyway.

ManyCookies wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 7:53pm:

Both Baba and Strahd can be run on R1 as long as you have a 2k hp melee that can intim for Strahd and a strong FvS healer with Wall/Consecration. If most people in the party have around 1500hp you can easily beat down the mounds in Baba with no tank as long as everyone stays within the healing and doesn't run when they get whacked. Can be a lil dicey with a weak group but it's also thrilling.

And if you lead groups don't be afraid to tell people no. Even if you want to run the raids on LH a few times to get your feet wet. If people are joining and they have 700hp then they don't even have the basic Ravenloft gear and have no business being there. Don't feel bad for telling them they aren't ready if they aren't ready. And the same thing for when you bump up the difficulty from there - don't take those people unless you absolutely know the rest of the group can carry them without a problem.

ManyCookies wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 7:54pm:


Don't knock my man Jeph!!

Wait wait, those Tycoon noobs are on other servers besides Thelanis?!

I thought Tycoons had a presence on all of the servers except Wayfinder.
Been a while since I checked their website.

pinkpuff wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 7:58pm:


Most of the time, i see maybe 75% of the group at 1.5k hp or more. Usually missing a tank (most people do not have intim high enough). Average of 1-2 healers usually. Would love to try r1 baba/strahd at some point though, assuming we can get all roles filled and everyone in full legendary gear, which is the hard part.

For lower level raids...FOTP, Tempest, LHOX, etc....I usually see half the party or more with less than 1.5k hp.

ManyCookies wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 8:17pm:

As you're running Ravenloft quests make sure you keep loot pieces that you don't already have stocked and save every last rare filigree. It's a good idea to have a couple trash alts just so you personally can fill in holes if needed. Like make a shit tank, go the 15arti/4whatever/1wiz route and respec to tank enhancements at 30. Easy enough to level and use your spare Ravenloft gear to get it moving. Make a FvS too. Sucks not running your main but at least you'll get completions and raid runes for your effort plus start decking out the couple alts. Eventually you'll get to the point where you know the raids from multiple positions and can lead them accordingly. Also helps to keep a couple shitters at 30 if you're doing lives on your main.

Teth wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 9:30pm:



They have a very good player Twoaxe And some decent ones TurnandBurn, Perci, Dian.  Legion is more casual/social than powergame though.

LOL sometimes "good players" talking is relative, and also the ability to judge.

Get Capricorpus for example, he says Damonzz is not good but believes Arcaneforge is a very good player.

It is a personal opinion without objectivity.

Both warlock, both achieve results in high reaper.
He trashes one and want to guild the other xD

Orange Flash wrote on Mar 9^th, 2019 at 3:09am:


Fake news, Darcat is currently at the top of our recruit wish list followed by Tilo and that adorable guy in the Conclave of Penguin Bane.