\u201cAll right, I\u2019ve my radiance gear!. Where\u2019s the raid?\u201d \/roar \/charge<\/em><\/p>\n Whoa! Are you prepared?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYeah! I\u2019m at the level cap? I have a radiance piece!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Hmmmhow about a checklist, cowboy?<\/p>\n Do you have enough? Every raid has a different Radiance minimum (check the raid guides or walk-throughs to find out how much you need (it’s nice if you can come with more than the minimum). If you don’t make the radiance minimum, you’re making things harder for everyone else, and wasting your time.<\/p>\n Always join the raid with all your gear fully repaired.<\/span> Fully. Repaired. I would suggest getting in the (simple) habit of always hitting \u201crepair all\u201d every single time you sell the stuff to a vendor.<\/p>\n Every. Time.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that\u2019s expensive\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Raiding is expensive. There are ways to make repair cash. It doesn\u2019t take long. Suck it up \u2013 everyone else does.<\/p>\n How good are your stats? If you don’t know if they’re good enough for the roles you’ll be asked to fill in the raid, TALK TO SOMEONE. Find experienced players in your Kin who are all too willing to talk you to death about raiding requirements, to ask them what you need — more morale? more power? better regen?<\/p>\n Ask about your class trait builds as well — sometimes the best-ever soloing build is the worst-ever raiding build — don’t be resistant to trying something new for a new activity.<\/p>\n There are two main types of food you should always carry: buff food and regular food.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that other guy\u2019s a cook; he brings enough for everyone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \/fishslap<\/p>\n I suggest always carrying a full stack of \u201cregular food\u201d<\/span> (meaning the kinds of food that dramatically increase your in- and out-of-combat power and morale regeneration) and Trail Food<\/span> (which gives you big bonuses to one of your stat) for soloing, but double check before the raid to make sure you\u2019ve got enough just in case you show up late or I get pulled in unexpectedly to help out after someone leaves.<\/p>\n \u201cMy wonderful kinmates will take care of me.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Yeah, most will, sure. But what makes you so special that you rely on others to do the small things for you? It isn\u2019t a question of whether it\u2019s easy enough for them to do \u2013 the question is consideration for others and being prepared. Maybe you won\u2019t need to use the food, but at least you\u2019ll have it.<\/p>\n This goes double for buffing food. I usually bring two or three different types for different fights; it\u2019s up to you to know what you need.<\/p>\n Resistance food (soups) <\/strong> Everyone should have a full stack of Morale, Power, Wound, Fear, Poison, and Disease Potions, regardless of what class you are.<\/span> Period. Full stop.<\/p>\n The current highest potency potions are freely and cheaply available from the \u201cFriend\u201d Malledhrim rep vendor in Mirkwood. Keep in stock.<\/p>\n This is one often gets forgotten. Warding and Battle scrolls of the appropriate tier can tip the balance of a fight in your group\u2019s favor. Yes, only one person NEEDS to have scrolls for their group, but what kind of person puts all that responsibility on one person? Find a scholar in your kin and pay for some scrolls (if they\u2019ll take the money) or buy them on AH, but get a stack of both kinds.<\/p>\n Like Radiance Gear (grumble), Hope Tokens are absolutely mandatory for Raiding, and their cooldowns mean that when we\u2019re hitting the same boss multiple times to learn the fight, the same person can\u2019t always use a token to protect their group. That means everyone should have at least two hope tokens with them \u2013 I\u2019d suggest keeping a stack of five +5 tokens on you all the time.<\/span> (I have four stacks, but I\u2019m a Tinker.) Make friends with a Tinker in your kin, or get thee to the Auction House.<\/p>\n The LI Relic system is a fickle mistress \u2013 you can\u2019t always get the best relics for your items, but that doesn\u2019t mean you ignore them \u2013 work with what you have. If you\u2019re not sure about the best thing to slot, ask someone in your kin.<\/p>\n Loremaster pipeweed, a threat-down instrument for minstrels (and probably a power-cost reduction harp for long fights), runekeeper etchings, champs horns, warden and guardian shield spikes ((hey, I forget spikes ALLLLL the time)) \u2013 don\u2019t forget the stuff you need to get your job done.<\/p>\n Raid Leaders may not compliment you on always being ready, but we notice. And we talk about it. We especially notice it when someone else isn\u2019t prepared. You\u2019ll get no visible credit, but if you want to be remembered as a good player to have on a raid, being prepared is the first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Disclaimer: I’m not an uberleet raider in LotRO by any means, but I do run raids and I do know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos","tag-lotro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Radiance<\/h2>\n
Repairs<\/h2>\n
Virtues and Traits<\/h2>\n
Food<\/h2>\n
\nSoups are (fairly) new additions to the game, so some folks aren\u2019t in the habit of bringing them. Do your research on the raid and find out if they\u2019re recommended \u2013 some raids use such varied damage types that soups are seen as worthwhile use of bag space \u2013 other\u2019s are very uniform and a specific soup type is highly recommended. Research. Find out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPotions<\/h2>\n
Scrolls<\/h2>\n
Hope Tokens<\/h2>\n
Legendary Item Relics<\/h2>\n
Other class-specific items<\/h2>\n
So Why All This Stuff?<\/h2>\n