Pre-Raid Prep

Prof · 12-01-2007, 12:47 PM

As I only raid with my Warlock, I'm curious to know what the other 23 classes out there go through to get ready to raid each day/week.

For a level 80 Warlock it's a matter of spending an hour or so in grey Runnyeye farming Nil Crystals until I have around 5-10 stacks of 99 so that I can cast all my spells during raid. Aside from that there is a quick trip to the broker making sure I have potions, drinks, repair kits, and then I'm ready to go.

I am most curious if there is any other class that needs an hour or so of prep work farming grey mobs so that they can parse/tank/heal/whatever.

Cheddar · 12-01-2007, 01:04 PM

LOL thats nothing compared to the royal pain in the ass that a ranger has to go through.

Food
Drink
Arrows (Multiple types)
Poisons (Rare cost a lot)
Deaggro Potions (Rare of course)
Crit Chance Potions (Have to be rare)
Stat Potions
Repair Kits

I literally gave up on my ranger because before a raid i'd have to login to my alchemist and make sure I always had my stock of poisons, then make sure I had decent arrows, the whole thing was a nightmare. Coupled with the fact that I was on a never ending quest for a decent bow and then another bow that summoned arrows it was all too much.

Azleya · 12-01-2007, 01:05 PM

Most of this doesn't really require a lot of farming or anything, but I need:

-9 kinds of poisons
-10 kinds of potions
-Tunare miracles, meaning I need to maintain faction (may switch gods soon, btw)
-2 kinds of temporary adornments
-Total stock of about 5k of different kinds of arrows (and I constantly summon more mid-raid)
-Food and drink, of course

Vainamoinen · 12-01-2007, 01:05 PM

I spend at LEAST an hour cyb0rzing beforehand.

BTW, is this a rhetorical thread?

kyros · 12-01-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

BTW, is this a rhetorical thread?

troubadour envy.

Prof · 12-01-2007, 01:56 PM

[quote=Cheddar;351515]LOL thats nothing compared to the royal pain in the ass that a ranger has to go through.
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Yea, everything you listed requires all of a minute of broker searching, or commmissioning a crafter to build it in advance... not sure how paying a crafter is more a pain in the ass than farming grey mobs... but I did expect Ranger to come in second place for prep work.

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Originally Posted by kyros

troubadour envy.

They had a problem, addressed it, and things changed for the better. Warlocks are in the same boat of needing a bad mechanic fixed. Envyous of Troubadors? Nah, I'm as happy as they are that PoTM was fixed. They seem to cast it more often now. Warlocks just need some attention, and Troubadors found a way to get it that works.

I'll amend the question. Aside from paying a crafter, what raid prep must you go through to achieve full potency on raids?

Illuminator · 12-01-2007, 02:15 PM

If I had to spend an hour prep'ing my class each day I would absolutely guaranteed be giving someone else my money each month.

LFG · 12-01-2007, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Prof

I'll amend the question. Aside from paying a crafter, what raid prep must you go through to achieve full potency on raids?

As a defiler and SK, none. I agree Warlocks are getting screwed by this holdout hassle from the original release.

My SK used to require components that processed from fighting mobs to cast pets. They removed that requirement over a year ago, as I believe they did for most other classes also. Sounds to me like they forgot to remove yours, or didn't get around to it.

Slippery · 12-01-2007, 02:29 PM

They need to remove it from coercers also, though for coercers it is more a problem of constantly destroying them. Either way they still need to go.

razieh · 12-01-2007, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by LFG

As a defiler and SK, none.

I don't know about you but! This is in no way comparable to warlocks but heres what I do. I run to nek forest to buy two heal clickies(which is obxious

) and ever couple days I have to craft a lot of +40 scrolls since I go threw them so fast. Also if you want to count buying the hundreds of crit pots and restocking potions and status items, I do that as well. I understand thats not a lot but its still something.

I know you really don't even care about this, because the point of this thread is obviously to get rid of nill crystals and not really what people do. Nil crystals and thought stones are pointless and should have never made it live.