We've been raiding for 6 weeks now (5 raids + 1 week break) and due to recent attendance, I've reviewed the raiding roster to try figure out if there's still enough of us remaining to make this work. After discussing it with several of the active raiders, I've come to the difficult decision that it's best to call an end to these cross-realm raids that I've been organising.
To give you a bit more of an idea as to why there won't be anymore raids, I've used the
spreadsheet to calculate some statistics:
- The average attendance was 44% per person
- 19 people attended 60% or more of the raids (after they signed up)
- The average person attended 1.63 raids
- 15 people attended 3 or more raids since we started
We've had some great progress and fun during the few raids we did (11/12 iCC25hc, LK25 normal, 12/12 ICC10hc, most ICC25 and ICC10 achievements) and I'd like to thank everyone that turned up on a regular basis to play their part.
There's always the possibility that we might try reform these raids in the (very) distant future, or if someone would like to take over leadership in an attempt to keep them running, you're more than welcome to.
So what now? Well there's 2 options I'm considering at the moment:
1) I might set up a 10man team of reliable and dedicated 80 twinks to do some fun and challenging things. These raid spots would be invitation/application only (rather than signing up like we did with the 25mans), for those who have shown good skill, reliability and attitude over the past 6 weeks. We would be doing all the 10man content (in appropriate gear if enough people wanted to) along with some crazy things (for example: naked Naxx10, Naxx25 with 10 people, and much more).
2)
This French guild is looking for some 80 twinks to fill in the last spots for their 2 weekly 25man raids. They raid Friday (ICC) and Saturday (Uld/ToC/RS) from 20:30 until 0:00 realm time. They would obviously prioritise raid spots to their own guild members, but would probably need around 4-10 more people (currently in need of healers/dps). They don't allow Cataclysm gear/consumables in the ICC raids, although they do allow mastery/reforging. Loot is rolled for and legendary acquisition is decided by their officers, based on activity and current progress.