So I’m a bit late into SoD and I want to know how to get into raiding. I’m on Living Flame and it seems like every group is demanding the boon, full consumables, and a current parse (which I don’t have.) Since I’m new to this I don’t know how to go about raiding other than starting my own group, but the thing is will people even want to join me?
I guess my question is? What should I do to best get into raiding? Should I find a good raiding guild that would put up with me? Or do I just start up my own pug group? Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: To clarify, I’m not at the cap yet but plan on being there soon. Just asking ahead of time!
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Might want to get into a guild if there’s stringent requests to get into raiding. Could always come over to Chaos Bolt. Guilds and PuGs don’t have that type of rigidity and many enjoy the raiding scene here.
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If you’re familiar with Discord, Living Flame should have their own and if it’s anything like Chaos Bolt’s there will be plenty of helpful people there. Recruitment of all kind, from PUGs to Guilds. With more information than those usually spamming in Trade.
You’ll find one that clicks for you, but guilds are definitely the way to go for nice calm runs with people actually wanting to help you get better rather than wanting you to already know everything and be the best. I wish you the best of luck finding people who you relate to!
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Alrighty. I figured it would require a raiding guild. I’ll look into seeing if there’s any that will let me join them.
As for the Discord. I tend to shy away from joining random Discords (Not scared just lazy) but I’ll check that out too and see if there’s a LF server. Thank you both for your help!
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Most people are pretty friendly. I think you have a good opportunity to get into it especially since BFD can be used as a leveling tool. So you can get a kind of warmup doing that with groups and get more situated for Gnomer.
In crusader strike theres a lot of pugs that only request semi pre-bis, boon (which is very easy to get) and Free Action Potion
The world buffs are simple/free to get. Be in Thunderbluff for a few minutes to get the BFD buff, and go talk to Sayge in Darkmoon Faire to get the 10% damage buff.
For consumes, the main thing they probably want you to have is a Free Action Potion, which makes the “hardest” fight a lot easier to finish.
Try to get some dungeon gear or AH BOEs instead of being in full questing greens.
You could watch some youtube videos about the raid encounters so you at least know the main gimmick of each fight. Most of them are extremely simple.
If they’re requiring you to have a parse, just explain you’re new, but you’ve prepared as much as possible. If they won’t budge, keep looking for another group. I’ve pugged a lot, and most groups I’m in have 1 or 2 newer/undergeared people.
I second this.
I had my own perceptions of how difficult it was going to be to get into raids, etc. which were all misconceived.
Joined a decent guild who has 5 raids per lockout and in the 20+ raids I’ve cleared between my 6 level 25’s I’ve seen only three total wipes and have 3 near bis toons starting from absolutely nothing.
Pugs happen almost 24/7 too.
Quite happy with the community on this server overall.
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Do some dungeons from 20-25 and try and get some nice blue gear.
Ding 25 do some quests for gold to buy some cheap greens to replace your really bad items.
Buy a lesser agility elixir and a free action potion from the AH and chronoboon from the reagent vendor(Chepi in Thunderbluff) wait for the BFD buff to pop in Thunderbluff and boon it.
Join the looking for group channel (/join lookingforgroup) wait for someone to make a group and whisper them “Hunter have consumes and world buff”
That’s how I do it. goodluck soldier.
/Who (Goonies) on LF horde.
Non elitist raiding guild, very happy with them.
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Simple. You gotta parse. Collect the best gear and all the consumes and logout for 3 days until you can do the raid. Once you do the raid make sure you are maximizing your parse because that’s what we play WoW for. Once you finish the raid in record time (20-30 mins) you need to stay logged out for another 3 days to do the same thing again.
Remember to ignore anyone and anything for your parse because anything less than a 99 will result in a non-invitation. If anyone calls you out just remember to reply with: Muh parse. They will understand.
Chaos Bolt is a friendly server. Few sweaty neckbeards, mostly nice ppl willing to help out others.
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The sad thing is, this seems to be the mentality of many people pugging in trade chat. They want only the best geared players and you have to have all the buffs consumables, a blue parse or better, and already have raid gear. I guess they care about parsing… which is silly because it’s a leveling raid that supposedly not too difficult. I don’t know, it just seems completely out of the spirit of the game to push that hard on low level content.