The other night I threw together a pug R2 4-6 Chrono raid. It had a good mix of veteran players and new players - about half and half. The lvl range was about half and half as well. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it went. We only had maybe 10-12 deaths overall, there was only about 3 people in the raid who really struggled - though I have to say they tried and did their best so you can't really complain about that.
Everyone did a really good job of wanding each other and healing each other - the group stayed together really well and worked together really well. I ended up being one of the only ones left at the end fight with wands left for healing so, I stepped back and wand healed the end fight, been a helluva long time since I wand healed a raid.
Having been leading several pug Reapers I have to say I am really starting to see, where people are stepping up their teamwork and team gameplay. We completed with an acceptable amount of deaths IMO for the levels and not having any sort of divine in the party. We had I think 10 people maybe 11, and of course no one could raise dead yet. The group did a good job communicating and stepping up to help each other whether it was healing, grabbing aggro, letting people know they needed help with killing a mob, etc.
I think reaper mode is coming together on Thelanis!!!!!