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#1 Jan 30 2006 at 11:20 AM Rating: Decent
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I searched Alla's and couldn't find what I was looking for but that doesn't mean it's not there somewhere. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm interested in finding out more about doing an LDoN raid. Has anyone done one before? What kind of point reward do you get in the end?

Thanks in advance for reading my post! Smiley: smile
#2 Jan 30 2006 at 11:26 AM Rating: Good
trust me, they aren't worth it.

and not to sound cynical, but if you have anything to upgrade with ldon points still, you'll die in the first room.
#3 Jan 30 2006 at 11:29 AM Rating: Decent
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Our guild was talking about possible events for the calendar and this one came up. One reason for doing it is that many of our members need points at the North Ro camp for spells and I thought this might be a fun way to get points and raid at the same time.
#4 Jan 30 2006 at 11:30 AM Rating: Good
LDoN raids are considerably harder than time, and, iirc, the point reward isn't all that great.
#5 Jan 30 2006 at 11:50 AM Rating: Excellent
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I agree with Groogle. You're better off just running hard missions than to try a raid. They're long, irritating, silly hard and just not worth the effort. They were hastily thrown in as an 11th hour effort to appease the Time geared end game players who hadn't had a raiding expansion since PoP (LoY was in between with virtually no raid content and nothing Time worthy) and they look like it.
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#6 Jan 30 2006 at 12:41 PM Rating: Decent
What's it take to actually start a raid, though? I was in a failed LDoN raid just a couple days ago. Failed, because the leader was unable to ever start it.

So:
-What level range works? (Like group av is 20+ for LDoN groups)
-What level difference works? (Like group has to be within 10 lvls of eachother)
-How many groups/players must be in it?

Additionally, in more detail, what are these raids like? (What happens when you look in, lots of MOBs, just hard MOBs, resistant, high DPS, lots of HP? Most summon or other abilities? What are typical mission objectives? etc)
#7 Jan 30 2006 at 12:51 PM Rating: Good
I'm guessing the raid range is five levels like old ldon was. (or was it seven? heh.) I doubt they remembered to change it. it also has to be a 63+ average.

In reality, unless you are raid-geared, you will die. and since raidgearedpeople are all seventy now - theres an effective required level of 70. assuming time geared level 70s, if you have less than five groups you'll still probably die.

most have death count limits - IE, you lose if your raid has more than 50 combined deaths. so you dont bring along people with crappy gear. this includes monk deaths on pulling, but you cant really not split in some areas, because you'll get your raid raped and then the death count will be even higher.

everything summons, duh =p

mobs run to get help at 50% in some areas. one room in the EF one has like 20 basically impossible to split mobs, that run faster than R5.

with some, you have to keep three bosses within a certain % health of each other or you basically lose.

basically, every single sneaky mechanic that you can think of was in LDoN raids. if you've seen it anywhere else and it was unusual, you'll see it again in ldon. They'd be fun and rewarding, except for the crappy loot and the death limits.
#8 Jan 30 2006 at 12:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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As I recall, you need 36 people of at least lvl 60 and an avg raid level of 62. Or it may be a minimum level of 62 and a higher average. Either way, it expects you to mostly be lvl 65 to attempt it.

I don't recall the details all that well (it's been about 2 years since I attempted one) so I hesitate to say exactly what happened. It might be easier now with the extended 66-70 level range but I still doubt it's worth it.
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#9 Jan 30 2006 at 12:58 PM Rating: Good
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Nope, no 6th star either.

haha, grats on 20k, I missed it.
#10 Jan 30 2006 at 7:57 PM Rating: Good
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not sure if this is mentioned, but you need at least 2 wins in every camp to be able to join a LDoN raid, or something like that.

and I agree, LDoN raid is a waste of time
#11 Jan 31 2006 at 12:47 PM Rating: Decent
Aren't several of them bugged and unbeaten to this day as well??
#12 Jan 31 2006 at 1:07 PM Rating: Good
I believe all ldon raids have been beaten at least once, on some server.
#13 Jan 31 2006 at 2:02 PM Rating: Decent
I thought there was 1 or two taht were not I might be mistaken though( I thought they were beaten by AO but i was imformed by someone in assent on the forums that there was one or two that are still unbeaten).

#14 Jan 31 2006 at 3:15 PM Rating: Decent
Yeah, the limit for LDoN raids is five levels between players, as it used to be.
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