Want a seasoned group to teach you Raids?

[Glorious]

Hello Thelanis! Our guild, Attacks the Darkness, is offering up its officers to teach new people how to run some of the raids in DDO. We know that joining PUG raid groups can be rather intimidating and many people who are unguilded or who are in newer guilds are not getting accepted into groups. We want to help people learn how to run raids, contribute according to their class, and get some good raid loot that will help develop characters further. AtD has committed to at least once per week posting a date and time in these forums to lead new people through many of the raids in DDO. Please note the following:

1) We will plan on having at least 6 of the positions available for New players that sign up on the forums - the rest of the spots in the raid will be filled with AtD officers and members to provide guidance and leadership
2) Raids will be led by AtD Officers who have a strong history of successfully leading the raid being entered.
3) If you sign up for one of our teaching raids please be on time - after 5 minutes we will give up your spot to someone else.
4) We are a mature guild and as such are looking for people 18 years of age or older please
5) We also ask that you have voice enabled and a microphone to speak - this is a teaching exercise and as such you need to be able to communicate easily.

This is not a recruitment strategy by AtD - we believe there is a need on the server for some help provided to new players and are offering up our guild leadership to increase knowledge. If however you turn out to be great and fit with the guild recruitment is always a possibility.

A little bit about AtD - we are one of the oldest guilds on the server - a smallish guild with approximately 18 active players at the moment. All of our guild members contribute equally and work together to complete quests and raids. We are generally of a mature age and play style, with little drama tolerated in our groups/raids. AtD has some seriously strong players on the server, players with significant knowledge base about builds, equipment and quest/raid completions.

Our first teaching raid will start with the Shroud this Tuesday June 8th at 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Make sure you are flagged and ready to roll at 8!

Flagging for Shroud - you need to have completed the 5 Vale Quests - received your 5 pie pieces and forged the signet stone in the Meridia altar. If you are Free to Play you would have to have also purchased the adventure pack for the Vale of Twilight.

Please either PM back to me (Glorious) or post in this thread is you want to sign up.

[cappuccino]

glori hon...care tp teach me when I get my butt back on?

[Nezichiend]

4) We are a mature guild and as such are looking for people 18 years of age or older please

You don't love me D:

[Illtemperedclavier]

The +1 rep hardly seems commensurate with how cool this is. A great contribution to the ddo community. Very cool, thank you AtD.

[Glorious]

Pemp - we will try and teach you brother - funny you were the topic of conversation just the other day - it was a "where the heck is Pemp" line

Ill - thanks we are looking forward to it!

First run is tomorrow so please sign up below or shoot me a PM - also Vets if you come across players that look like they would benefit and fit the criteria send them to this thread!

[AkromaAoW]

I like it! Noble effort AtD folks.

E.

[Ironforge_Clan]

Hello Thelanis! Our guild, Attacks the Darkness, is offering up its officers to teach new people how to run some of the raids in DDO. We know that joining PUG raid groups can be rather intimidating and many people who are unguilded or who are in newer guilds are not getting accepted into groups. We want to help people learn how to run raids, contribute according to their class, and get some good raid loot that will help develop characters further. AtD has committed to at least once per week posting a date and time in these forums to lead new people through many of the raids in DDO. Please note the following:

1) We will plan on having at least 6 of the positions available for New players that sign up on the forums - the rest of the spots in the raid will be filled with AtD officers and members to provide guidance and leadership
2) Raids will be led by AtD Officers who have a strong history of successfully leading the raid being entered.
3) If you sign up for one of our teaching raids please be on time - after 5 minutes we will give up your spot to someone else.
4) We are a mature guild and as such are looking for people 18 years of age or older please
5) We also ask that you have voice enabled and a microphone to speak - this is a teaching exercise and as such you need to be able to communicate easily.

This is not a recruitment strategy by AtD - we believe there is a need on the server for some help provided to new players and are offering up our guild leadership to increase knowledge. If however you turn out to be great and fit with the guild recruitment is always a possibility.

A little bit about AtD - we are one of the oldest guilds on the server - a smallish guild with approximately 18 active players at the moment. All of our guild members contribute equally and work together to complete quests and raids. We are generally of a mature age and play style, with little drama tolerated in our groups/raids. AtD has some seriously strong players on the server, players with significant knowledge base about builds, equipment and quest/raid completions.

Our first teaching raid will start with the Shroud this Tuesday June 8th at 8:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Make sure you are flagged and ready to roll at 8!

Flagging for Shroud - you need to have completed the 5 Vale Quests - received your 5 pie pieces and forged the signet stone in the Meridia altar. If you are Free to Play you would have to have also purchased the adventure pack for the Vale of Twilight.

Please either PM back to me (Glorious) or post in this thread is you want to sign up.

Hmmmm I've heard this somewhere before.....

[Uamhas]

Hmmmm I've heard this somewhere before.....

IFV used to run Titan raids that were just for teaching other guilds how to git er dun. Perhaps this is what tweaks your memory.

[Gercho]

Great initiative, i would have loved something like this a few months ago, maybe if i flag for abbott some time i can join one of your teaching groups

[Maxelcat]

love this idea.

Concider me signed up for it. except im not on lots right now since im in the middle of a move.

[Iambeastx]

Great idea.
Me and privan from Claw have kinda started something like this with regard to the abbott on weekends, its to help us as much as others, easy to spot - newbie abbott join to learn and maybe complete lfm.

I'm still iffy on titan, hard to learn it in a pug tbh so i'd be interested in learning the titan ropes.

[DagazUlf]

reppage

[quickbunnie]

A great idea.
I think something that will also aid players is some raid equipment pre-req's in addition to the flagging req's that you have posted.

For example, specific to shroud, you may want to encourage players to find and bring weapons with good and silver/metalline with them to bypass DR. Letting players know a few days before-hand will allow them to go through the auction house and find some.

All of this information can already be found on the forums, but again, since we are talking about newer players, directing them to a single thread with per raid information will make it easier to digest.

Regardless, this is an excellent idea and hopefully more teaching raids will start to appear.

[Future]

KUDOS to AtD!!!! Very good idea! +1

Good group of people in that guild!!

[mannvar]

Good idea but what do you guys have against darkness?

[Glorious]

Good idea but what do you guys have against darkness?

The Darkness just has to go....

For anyone that posted and PM'd to me about tonight - I will post up the Shroud Run under my Favoured Soul Gloried with a message in the LFM posting that it's a New Person Training Run - see you at 8:00pm!

[pseudomasochist]

I'd be all over this if it was at a different time but I can't make it online until about 9 PM EST normally. Another AtD member, Trombone, talked me through my first Hound run not long ago and it's great to see veterans taking time out to get newer people up to speed. Kudos.

[DoctorWhofan]

OK

Titan Pre Raid.

Haven't a CLUE how to do this. And the raid also.

Heck most of Restless Isles. I'd like t o teach my guildies but this raid has been left off my list for the reason of lack of knowledge.

There...First Victim (I think) And sending Pemp to help doesn't count!

[Glorious]

There are lots of people in our guild that do that Titan with almost surgical precision so I can post that one for next week's Teaching Raid...it will be fun!

[Uamhas]

mmmwarforged... ahem, uh.. I could help out with Titan prereqs and the Raid itself, so long as I'm not leading the raid, that is. I'm pretty proficient on the green puzzle, too.