Any Raid Guilds recruiting

[Kimidri]

Hi,

My wife and me are looking for a new raid guild, Ideally one thats still raiding tower so i can get my EM8 But also breaking into Underfoot would be good We are in the UK so needs to be GMT time raiding really,

I am a 85 mage wife is a 85 shammie we came back to eq around 18 months ago maybe and have been in a raid guild for most of that time,
I which time we have progresed through solt,MMM,Cryst And sod raids I think we are both tower flagged i am wife may need mindshear though think she got it we both have keys though

We are really looking for a guild that raids say 4 days a week, We are on bertox at the moment but are looking at server transfering

Thanks

Kimidri

[Baramos]

Check out http://www.lavanet.no/progress/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for a start.

You can choose which expansion you are looking at up at the top of the page. Then look at the guilds who are making or have made progress in that area. Then go to guild page links and check first to see if they have updated their page recently. If not they may be struggling. Look at their roster, their forums, and their recruitment information.

Try and approximate to a first order what the population on servers is, because many servers are having issues.

Maelin, Xegony, and AB look like a good bet (maybe - don't take my word for that).

Then talk to the recruiters or PM or email them. I prefer to talk to real live players using ;tell servername.playername so I can get a good handle on what's up. Then you might visit their /general channel or even take a look-see in the Bazaars to see how many traders there are and how outrageous their prices are for a handle on server population (average traders these days is ~ 100 traders in Bazaar at peak so you might want to use that as a starting point). Bazaar prices on stuff like Spongy Loam, Vanadium (anything) are another indication of server health in general and the dearth or abundance of stuff, and the server personality. For example, if you see Spongy Loam being sold for 30k each (that is very high - average 8 to 10k) with a lot on one trader, there is implicit information there, in context with the other information you can get.

Raiding guilds these days are of 3 varieties. In one they like to raid 6+ days a week and have very stringent attendance policies. Another has 5 to 7 with attendance polices with less rigor. And then the 3rd variety that seemed to spring up from Descendents idea on MM (Saryrn now) is a 3 day a week raiding guild that does raid content but does it without the brute force. There are a lot of those types of guilds on Xegony.

Anyway, that's a start.

[Baramos]

Oh, one more thing.

It's a buyer's market out there. Be very picky, because you can. You don't have to take any crap. If you don't want to deal with omgz0r people, jerks, rude, or elitist people you don't have to.

Avoid Public Raiding guilds or alliances. Several issues there that I won't go in to (sorry if I've offended any of you here on that point - I know there are several Mages on several servers that like these things).

One good place to start would be Silent Resurgence, of The Nameless. I don't know how that would fit with your times, but that guild is one of the most mature guilds I have had the pleasure to work with. Talk to the Mage guy, Dongin, over there. Or Puttputt who tries to pretend to be a hardass (but isn't). Or Dairen the GL. These guys are real pros. And it looks like they may be raiding Tower, still. If you talk to Dongin, tell him Baramos sent you.

[Kimidri]

Hi,

Thanks for the info i used to raid 6 night a week was looking for a 3-4 night guild which i have now found and app going in soon

Kimidri