Leaders of RG lend me your ears,
It seem to me you are in need of more people? do you want more reservers etc
The reason I asked is there was a little scrabbling around and it seems some of your team cant make mondays.
If you think that your fine then great, but if not or in the future then just shout and we will come and help out.
At least one more healer and a ranged dps would be nice :)
It might be a problem that Sheepy can't make mondays and he did offer to switch groups though I don't think that is needed. Problem yesterday was more the short notice we had to replace Krek'la but either of the reserves could have stepped in.
With the group size at 8 man the amount of time being on the reserve lists increases quickly. Rotating a tank at the moment means each tank will only make 2 of each 3 runs. Adding a healer would mean rotating the same as tanks. Rotating DPS is slightly better with 4 out of 5 runs.
I think 10 or 11 is the best number for the runs as long as everyone is active. The biggest problem at the moment is that there is no reserve healer and the person most willing to respec if needed is Sheepy. The other problem with needing a healer is that the healing
classes are over represented except for the operative and we already have an active operative healer. In a perfect world I would stay at 10 with DarkAngel switching to healing when needed( actually in the perfect world Vladic would be sniper not Merc as well).
I think the best solution is to keep the rosters at 10-11 players and then have the reserve lists shared between all the groups, priority should be to get into the group you are a member off. Basically if there is an open spot in a group a player from the other group can join if no other reserve of that role is available. This of course works better when both/all groups have been active for some time.
+1 for Drazila's idea.
I like the idea of sharing reserves although it might be 'spreadsheet time' keeping track of who has been on which run :) Personally I like the idea of Blue and Red Groups having a distinct identity with every player being on one team or the other. But I don't think a bit of movement between them to help out would be a bad thing. So IMHO try to fill your raid from your own pool but if you find yourself short as a group feel free to ask the other group for a player if they're free and happy to play. this way we can keep each group at a size that's small enough to let us all raid regularly but still keeps us able to fill all the roles.
That should work. I do suggest BG move on to HM asap and RG could possibly be on NM in the near future. But that is whole other discussion and should be left to group leaders when they feel their group is ready for it.
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So at the moment these are the members we have in the RG. Am I missing someone? If not, we are currently 10, leaving us with 1 less then the current number for the BG. Assuming we can borrow reserves from BG, as discussed in another thread, we should be good. I can't help but worry a bit about the lack of healer reserves though. We do have DA and Sheepy able to respec to fill the role, but that also takes away 1 dps reserve and Sheepy not being available on Mondays. Then again we do have 1 spare tank that could fill the DPS role. What do the you think? Also if we were to add 1 more player to this list, what would we be looking for? I'm thinking an operative with the will and ability to fill both healer and dps roles.
Tanks
Imhotep
Krek'la
Lurek
Healers
Tenilia
Twyster
DPS
DarkAngel
KKND
Sheepy
Varg
Vladic
Further, I expect that in the future we will have more players wishing to join both RG and BG if the guild keeps growing and more people want to do end game content. As I see it we want to keep the BG more casual and the RG more aimed at hard mode and nightmare content. This gives the BG room to have a bigger reserve pool without too much conflict, but what of the RG? I imagine at one point we will be looking at increasing the group size to do 16 man groups and so will probably the BG. What are the views on this?
My preferance would be to have one of the mercaneries respecing Healer and getting a sniper, but if neither is willing ( and I think that is the case ) then I would want to add an operative.
a response about vladic from a open post to everyone,
Vladic has been seen by kknd if i am correct but i think that was on the forum only and not ingame. I aint sure, but this was what i could still dig up in my mind from things in gchat yesterday evening.
Sorry my fault but I dont think it was to evil, just a passing note and it might help varg, but good point.
Quote from: Ice Hawk;346176a response about vladic from a open post to everyone,
Vladic has been seen by kknd if i am correct but i think that was on the forum only and not ingame. I aint sure, but this was what i could still dig up in my mind from things in gchat yesterday evening.
Aye did see him on the forums not ingame.
The post wasn't wrong, but a conversation about him in the open could be wrong.
could send him a PM on the forums saying to contact us asap.
And imo if he dont show up for the next 2-3 OPs hes out.
Quote from: Tanales;346187could send him a PM on the forums saying to contact us asap.
And imo if he dont show up for the next 2-3 OPs hes out.
I have sent him a PM, but he hasn't replied, that's why I dropped a comment in case someone knows him.
Vladic has just quit due to life so you need another DPS is that right? Anyone spring to mind?
We want a Sniper, and we already brought up if with Tobi that TL might fit well in if he only can make it on mondays since Sheepy only can make it thursdays. The question then becomes if we still need 1 more, preferably operative, mercanary that can be either healer or Ranged DPS.
Well I think the first thing to do is to talk to TL and see if he is up for it and can make it on a Monday. And then we can build from there. Want me to have a word or would you like to do it?
I can talk to him if I see him on, he usually trolls this forum as well so he will answer here soon enough :P
Agreed he already knows our plans, but we should be gentlemen about this and ask him, rather than him having to jump in. So grab him if you want to mate :)
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Yep, spoke to Januz and I'll be around on Mondays for you.
RG co-leaders:
I had a chat with Toby last night, and we discussed the possibility of adding another member to the RG, as Vladic is on a break and Sheepy/Tealeaf basically count as 1 atm. We would probably be best off with another dps/healer combo class, and Toby suggested Gromit(Sorcerer). Thoughts?
Quote from: Drazila;347133I actually prefer it if people aren't set in the roles and are ready to switch healing/DPS or tanking/DPS if needed. Not everyone has to but it is better when people can do this since we can live with fewer people. At the moment I think RG needs one more person, preferably with Healer as main spec. While I think Gromit might be a great fit if he can regularly make it both nights ( know him in RL and not sure if he can ) but the problem is what class he is.
At the moment the class balance for us is
3/2 Sith Inquisitor
3 Sith Warriors
1/2 Imperial Agent
2 Bounty Hunters
We have a decent balance across the advanced classes as well with 1 of each class except Juggernaut and Sorcerer where we have 2. Gromit is a Sorcerer which causes some problems mostly with distribution of loot both reducing the amount of loot Inquisitors get but also causing a lot more of loot to not be usable ( at the moment Twyster is almost full rakata and has spare of a few pieces because he has been the only IA ).
But this is will be a problem for blue group as well since they have an imbalance as well with the ammount of inquisitors.
Just a note for you that looting in hard modes is back to rolling for items, not like normal mode where loot is assigned to players.
My thoughts posted in another thread.
Oh, I missed that post then. I also think Gromit would be a good fit for RG, if he can make both days. It allows for more rotation and allows for more members to be absent without gimping the OP.
Detailing your class balance a bit, we have:
1 Assassin (with some tank gear)
2 Sorcerers (1 in half capacity/attendance)
2 Juggernauts (with some DPS gear)
1 Marauder
1 Operative
1 Sniper (in half capacity/attendance)
1 Power Tech
1 Mercenary
Adding another Sorcerer to that mix is not optimal as far as loot is considered, but I would prefer to not go outside the guild community just for that. Also only the Marauder and Sniper are limited to 1 role. Many of the classes with DPS as offspec do fall under melee though, like the Operative, Juggernaut and I suspect the Power Tech as well. Melee is something we really can't afford to have more of imo.
I would prefer a merc healer/DPS but Gromit will do.
But as Vargen said we will have some unbalance with the base classes in this group if he join.
Guys it seems that DA is going to be MIA for sometime are we needing to things a replacement for him?
I dont care who you are! You cant join the procession if you dont have a cross.
Ok, so it's time to wake up again. We no longer have Sheepy, and DA will be away for some time. TL is still in half capacity due to WoW.
So this leaves us with:
Krek'la, Imho and Lurek as tanks. I've spoken to Krek'la recently, and he has expressed that he wants to tank more when the new content is out.
For healers we have Teni, Twyster and Gromit. Gromit still being slightly under the rest of us gearwise.
and DPS; Varg, KKND and half a Tealeaf
This leaves us with 8,5 people. What do we do?
We go out there and get people, and there is now one left in the community that we can drag up?
I could go DPS if Krekla wants to tank more,
And maybe make an advert post in the public SWTOR section asking for members who are willing to join the OP groups.
I think that the public question is best to start I will do that tonight :)