[Agnarr] Open Plat POTIME Friday July 22 @ 8:30 EST

Hello everyone -- I'm going to be hosting an open plat Plane of Time raid on Agnarr this coming Friday, FEBRUARY 22nd at 8:30pm EST. If you've been itching for another potime clear, wanted to raid it on a Friday, have alts/box characters you want to get loot on, or just want to have fun, consider joining me on this funquest.

Who am I: I'm an officer of Charge the Lair and our primary raid leader. I've been on Agnarr since server launch and am likely going to stay here for a long time. My previous guild, Rusty Dagger was the 3rd or 4th guild (can't remember) to kill Quarm, so I've been raiding Time pretty consistently since June of last year . I've also hosted many public backflagging events over the past several months.

How will this work: Mob dies. Item drops. I will ask for bids (in tells), and the highest bid wins. Provide me the plat (or krono equivalent), and then the loot will be assigned to your character.

Who can join: Anyone who is lvl 65. I want to make sure that we have some minimum requirements of certain classes to actually ensure the raid works (I.E. we need 5-6 clerics, handful of tanks, etc), but otherwise no particular restrictions. I don't care what guild you're from, whether you're a main, box, or what.

Box policy: Boxes are free to join the raid, but please let me know if you're boxing a character, which character it is. I will prefer mains to boxes, so if the raid becomes full, I'll start booting boxes for mains. I won't ask, I'll just start removing boxes. Preemptively, don't be offended if you have a box that gets removed, it's not personal!

What happens to the platinum after: I will take a raid log every 30 minutes ("tick"). At the end of the raid, I will distribute the platinum to each person, based on the amount of ticks they were at the raid for. 2% of the platinum generated by the raid will go to me

Raid start & end time: Raid will start at 8:30pm EST. I'll probably start forming the raid at about 8:10 and aim to start promptly at 8:30. The raid will end when Quarm dies.

More specific rules:
- The minimum bid for an item is 10,000 platinum. No max bid

- Regardless of how many boxes/alts you bring, you will count as 1 person for purposes of the split. If you're not happy with this, don't bring a box. If I find out that you have boxes at the raid that aren't declared, you forfeit your split and will be banned from future raids

- If there are is a tie, each person will be asked to submit a new bid

- I'll use the Agnarr discord - you must be in discord to be eligible to receive plat. I don't care if you talk or not, but being in discord to listen to instructions is required. If I see someone in the raid that isn't in discord, I'll forfeit your split. I may or may not give warnings

- We'll try to clear as fast as possible, but I'll leave enough time between bosses to do loot and make sure the raid is ready, so it may take longer than you're used to clearing with your guilds

- Bids ideally are in platinum. Krono bids will be allowed, and a conversion rate will be announced at the start of the raid. I will also update this thread with the rate

- People please bring heal pots, I likely will NOT be selling them, but would love if people did!

- I'm expecting people to contribute on the raid. People who are consistently not contributing will be removed from the raid. I'll give 1 warning out to people who are egregiously not doing anything

Final note:
Everyone is in guilds that run plane of time differently. There are many different strategies, all of which work to get the bosses dead. For the sake of efficiency, please follow raid instructions! Backseat driving will hinder, not help the raid. This is meant to be fun, get loot to people, and get some plat to people. Keep it light, and have fun! I hope to be able to run these relatively regularly if they're successful. Thanks!

Wow I'm actually an idiot, why did I write July in the title? I meant February SORRY.

Selling heal pots at the door, 190 a piece or 3 for 500. PST.

Glad someone is keeping this Agnarr service going! I'm going to try to make it, but I'm pretty busy helping plan for Selo.

Also the 2% is incase you mess up on assigning splits. Trust me, you'll likely need it. I messed up and incorrectly had a main assigned as a box with the VT I just led and the 2% covered it.

I kinda figure this is the case! I imagine it'll be quite a bit of work to get all the splits ironed out properly. I'm hoping it goes well.

Greater than a weeks notice would be good for those who need to plan DZ cool downs.

I led the TIME IS MONEY raid, and Foaming is right. That 2% error insurance covered my on losing an entire split for someone. My recommendation? Take it as slow as YOU need to make sure everything is correct on the spreadsheet.

Given the huge amount of money you'll be working with, errors can easily cost you three or more krono per out of your own pocket.

What was the player split for the first open Time raid?

Off the top of my head.....close to 100k each? It was around 3 krono per attendee at the price of krono at the time.

Can box / piggy slots be reserved? I plan to bring 5 chars and about 100 Krono / plat equivalent.

Modisk - 65 SK - Not Flagged - Will bid aggressively on several items.
Modisah - 65 Cleric - Flagged - May bid aggressively on select items.
Modstal - 65 Druid - Flagged - Will bid moderately on many items.
Modris - 65 Ranger - Not Flagged - Will bid moderately on a few items.
Modras - 65 Ranger - Not Flagged - Will big moderately on a few items.

I went on my cleric, I THINK I got 97k or so, so ya basically 100k!

Heya, I'd say... yes and no. My main concern is making sure that our raid force has enough: tanks, heals, and DPS to actually get through time. I also prefer mains over boxes. I'm glad you have a bunch of plat to drop, but I'd say for sure that I won't have 4 of your boxes over 4 mains that want in. So... it kinda depends. I'd bring your chars for sure, if we're not overflowing with mains I'm happy to have your chars in.

I could very well create this problem for myself; a dozen or so folks inquired about my VT attendance from seeing my boxes running around shard camps. Me being there with my spending habits entices more folks to show up and collect a split. If my chars are then restricted, that's less plat going into the raid. This hurts all the other mains in the raid for the benefit of the hand full of mains that got my boxes' spots.

Aside from this, my wife, who goes to school out of state, is with me this weekend. If it's looking as if I'll be sitting out or juggling the entire night, then I'm going to save myself the faction hit, go out with her, and skip EQ.

What's better for everyone at the raid, all things considered? I believe most attendees would prefer high bidders be given attendance preference.

High bidders keep these events popular. Which allows them to even happen.

Plane of time should get enough people regardless.

Modsiw might have a good reputation but if you look at the extreme a raid with 10 people 6 boxing (or worse) is a closed loop/community and eventually the system would probably fall apart.

So it's important to balance boxes vs mains.

The correct answer is go out with your wife.

Possible you already answered this, but can we raid on characters that bid for other characters not in raid? For example, I’m there with Cleric and want an item for my Rogue; can I bid on said item for the Rogue even though the Cleric is there at the time of the kill? I’d rather not blow a DZ if I don’t have to.

I can't speak for the rules of this raid, but PoTime mechanics limit the ability to do this. Once a phase is cleared, there's no getting back to it. So, the loot from the last 2 mobs in p3 and the last boss killed in p4 and in p5 will be limited to only the characters present for the kill.

We're together every other weekend, sometimes more, during fall / spring. It's not the end of the world to miss a night, but still not great. I'd definitely skip a guild raid or a plat vt / ele raid, but plat time -- oh man, that's a rough call.

P5 does not work like the previous phases. Even if all P5 is down, you zone up to P5 not Quarm. This does apply to the last bosses of earlier phases, just not 5 which is my area of concern.