EQ was my 1st mmo but I quit years back. Since then I have been on a progression raid guild in WoW. I got tired of WoW partially due to the way raids work there.
I think the problem is the player cap of 10 or 25, and the one week instance lockouts. It makes casual raiding unbearable. If you aren't in a dedicated weekly group, you have to join someone elses raid. You wind up killing 1 or 2 bosses and then you are locked out of the whole instance for the rest of the week. If you are in a dedicated group, attendance becomes mandatory whether you feel like playing or not.
What I remember about EQ as a casual raider was no size limit. You can bring 100 people if you want. If you need 6 healers you can bring 8 or 9. The more dps the merrier. This makes it a lot easier for someone who can only raid on random nights, or might not want to raid 4 nights a week but still wants to be able to run with friends.
EQ has gone through many, many expansions since I have played. What is raiding like now for casual players? Are there raid size limits or lockouts?
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Hi,
There is a size limit and always has been. EQ supports up to 72 players in a raid. Some special progression raids have been limited to 54 or 24, but those are not all that common. 6 or 7 years ago, in a very large guild, you could fill the raid roster and not have room for stragglers. I've seen this a few times recently, but for the most part, you can count on the population being so low that you won't have enough (or any) of a certain class. A raiding cleric or shaman main is going to be in very, very high demand, mostly because they've all but disappeared when mercenaries came out...boxes don't count.
Not all raiding guilds have mandatory attendance. The last three guilds I've been in that have raided current content have never required attendance. Of course you won't win raid loot if you don't show up.
There are lockouts for most raid instances. But the good thing about EQ is that there are 17 expansions' worth of content. Some guilds raid 5 or 6 nights per week. Others only raid 2-3 nights per week, and then lockouts are really not an issue.
There is a size limit and always has been. EQ supports up to 72 players in a raid. Some special progression raids have been limited to 54 or 24, but those are not all that common. 6 or 7 years ago, in a very large guild, you could fill the raid roster and not have room for stragglers. I've seen this a few times recently, but for the most part, you can count on the population being so low that you won't have enough (or any) of a certain class. A raiding cleric or shaman main is going to be in very, very high demand, mostly because they've all but disappeared when mercenaries came out...boxes don't count.
Not all raiding guilds have mandatory attendance. The last three guilds I've been in that have raided current content have never required attendance. Of course you won't win raid loot if you don't show up.
There are lockouts for most raid instances. But the good thing about EQ is that there are 17 expansions' worth of content. Some guilds raid 5 or 6 nights per week. Others only raid 2-3 nights per week, and then lockouts are really not an issue.
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