EDIT #4: As you people can see in the main post, we already have enough participants signed in and confirmed for the run. As such, I declare this raid enrollment closed for now. We might even have to turn people down for the reasons stated below: having achievement already / having too good gear.
For those of you who didn't make it: there will be another raid sometime soon(TM) (Copyright Blizzard for the expression :D ). However, I cannot say when this soon(TM) will be, as I need to know my schedule for next week.
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Recently I have read a whole lot of threads about people being unable to join Flex raids because of what they called "ridiculous demands from raid leaders, such as Ahead of the Curve FoS or 550 item level". Despite the fact I believe everyone is entitled to set any requirement they desire for the raid they create, I do feel for the more shy forumers in that they have difficulties creating their own raid and it sucks not being able to join one. As such, I have decided to make an experiment, in which you fellow forumers are invited to participate if you want.
The experiment is this: we will make a flexible run that will have low item level requirements, and that will be comprised of unexperienced players. I will be leading the raid, since it is reasonable to assume that at least someone in the group will be required to know what we need to do beforehand. A number of rules will apply for our raid:
If we have enough interested people posting in the thread, we will decide upon a raid time acceptable for everyone (for example, next Saturday starting at 15:00 CET), and I will share my btag in the thread.
1) For obvious reasons, only horde applicants will be considered.
2) There will be a minimum item level requirement set at 520. Hopefully, this item level requirement is to be considered reasonable enough for our endeavor.
3) People without any relevant achievement will be prioritized ahead of those with achievement. Should we not have enough players without achievement, FoS or whatever else, we will take from the latter category.
4) I will attempt to take players of a more-or-less balanced class setup.
5) After fulfillment of all other criteria, players will be taken in the raid on a "first come, first served" basis.
6) People will be required to install a voice communication - Ventrilo - and I shell provide a Ventrilo server we can use. However, since I understand some people are shy to speak using voice com, this will not be required. Only listening will suffice.
7) Explaining will be done using the English language. Therefor, basic understanding of English is a requirement.
8) People that will fail repeatedly on the same thing over and over will be kicked eventually. However, a fair number of failure will be entirely tolerated, and blame will not be thrown around.
9) People with toxic behavior will be ejected from the raid ASAP. Toxic behavior will mean harassing any other raid member, afk'ing, or any other thing that will disturb the wellbeing of the rest of the raid. Explaining nicely to another player where s/he failed is OK, being rude about it is not.
...and my personal favorite: 10) Players participating in this raid are not allowed to make any "I can't get into flex raids" threads for 2 weeks after participation. :)
So... shoot, let me know if you're interested in this, forum readers.
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UPDATING THE LIST OF PARTICIPANS
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Sedana
Viron (if we need him)
Kinttama (if s/he gets game time)
Jalana (if s/he can get any decent gear till raid time)
Saphiramoon on his/her DPS monk
Wrathfull
Hammerbolt
Ikyrio
Waffles
Optam
Rockwell
Drakarth
Ghronz
Aélyra
Scalär
Nerzarn
Kyà on his/her shaman
Retier on his/her paladin
Zerofantasy
Kshia and his/her friend
Keg
Konza (?; not sure if you want to participate though since the intention isn't specifically stated in your post?)
Fivetigers
Gorefriend
Disease
Drswag
Sharei
Whiskeytotem
Eruka
Antenora on whichever char s/he wants to join on (we prefer the priest).
Aurorasofia
Tabori and maybe his better half. :)
Påloftet
Ávitus only if we have spots left for overgeared people. :)
Töra
Sathirus
Amirila
Nabla with whichever character s/he decides to join us.
and last (but hopefully not least) Anabelle on noob rogue alt Sayyah.
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Edit #3: I will bold the names of the people who confirm their attendance. People that state they can't make it will have names in italics.
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It seems so far we have 20 people who are pretty sure to be able to make it, and a number of potentials. I would kindly ask you guys who see your names listed here to suggest a time and date in the next weekend (Friday, 10th to Sunday, 12th) which would be convenient for you so we can set our little raid. I would also appreciate it if you guys can confirm (or infirm) your attendance.
As I have posted in a reply in the thread:
1) Friday starting 18:00 CET.
2) Saturday starting 15:00 or 16:00 CET (pretty much any time in afternoon).
3) Sunday starting 15:00 CET (I really can't later on, because we have a guild raid on Sunday at 18:00 which I must attend, thus it seems to be the worst of the 3 options for me personally).
As for you puny alliances, thank you all for your support, but don't think that means we, THE MIGHTY HORDE, trust you or anything like that!
PS: I would ask for everyone participating in the raid to enchant/gem/reforge gear until raid time, to craft/purchase 4 flasks and around 40 potions of the relevant types for their roles. Don't bother with food buff, I will bring some feasts for the raid (unfortunately I can't make the 300 mainstat food, so we need to settle for the 275 one).
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EDIT with the date/time of the raid: The raid is scheduled for Saturday, the 11th of January at 15:00 CET (realmtime).
My battle tag is Allora#2934. However, I will kindly ask you peeps to not add me until Friday afternoon, and when you do add me, please include a "Flexible raid <<forum name>>" in your comment, because there is a tendency to be spammed by gold sellers on btag, which I block. Instead of <<forum name>>, complete with the name you are included in this post rather then the character you want to join on, so I know who you are from reading the thread. I am also asking you peeps to add me, because a single add effort from each person is much easier then if I added every single one of you.
Thank you.