There will be many more Raids to come 5-20 man perhaps even 40-man if we can recruit and gather willing justifiable players able to overcome serious encounters both capable and skilled in combat/healing (here) on these forums we enable everyone the ability to discuss, plan, apply to events and submit pointers and advice to defeat monsters and bosses and to conquer the largest and most difficult raid encounters in the game : Naxxramas, Eye of Eternity, Obsidian Sanctum (also pre-WotLK : Serpentshrine Cavern, The Eye, Mount Hyjal, Black Temple and pre-BC : Molten Core, Onyxia, Blackwing Lair,Ahn'Qiraj, Naxxramas) and outdoor bosses. Raids groups are a way to have parties of more than 5 and up to 40 people, divided into up to 8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms "raid" and "raiding" primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and zones. 

While in a raid group, players do not receive credit for completing quest objectives unless the quest calls for a raid. Players also receive an experience reduction for any mob killed while in a raid group. These are to prevent players from creating very large groups in order to complete normal quests or other game content intended for parties of 5 or fewer. This experience reduction is simply that the usual "group XP bonus" is not applied while in a raid group.

Many instances requiring a raid are also subject to a raid timer.

 A typical World of Warcraft raid can take 3-4 hours once the group is able to complete it, and can take much more time over many sessions to get to that point. Basically, that it can take up as much of one's time as permitted. Generally, though, practical considerations (work/school schedules, fatigue, etc) will place limits on how much time a group spends raiding.

There are, of course, extreme examples, such as a Final Fantasy XI raid that lasted 18 hours before they decided to quit. World of Warcraft mitigates such long boss fights by adding enrage timers to bosses to ensure that a single fight does not last too long.

Given the amount of time involved to be successful, there are some game developers and academics that feel that raiding can be a focus for obsession, impacting a person's ability to care about real life goals and accomplishments. Players should be aware of these factors when deciding if they want to get into raiding or to what extent they want to get into raiding.

         

• Typically we contain at least 50 to 100 members, most of whom are at the current level cap, and ranging from moderate to high in skill level.
• Founders and core members tend to be hardcore players and casual players are rarely allowed, but we do our best to accommodate players of all types.
• We tend to be strict in our recruitment practices, having limited periods of time in which we search for more of certain classes (usually to replace members who have left).
• We also have detailed systems for distributing loot acquired from raids, often some variant of Dragon kill points. Sometimes this leads to "loot drama" in which we do our best to avoid.
• We often tend to have insensitive attitudes towards members who don't participate in raids frequently enough or that are unskilled or (noob-ish).

Raid mods

 Main article: Raid AddOns

There have been many mods produced specifically for raiding.

Raid instances

20-playerLevel 60

• Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj (1.9.0)

25-playerLevel 70

• Caverns of Time: Battle for Mount Hyjal 

40-playerLevel 60

• Onyxia's Lair
• Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (1.9.0)

10 and 25-playerLevel 80

• Onyxia's Lair  (3.2.2)

10 and 25-playerLevel 85

• War of the Ancients  (NYI, planned for Caverns of Time)

Eastern Kingdoms 

10-playerLevel 60

• Lower Blackrock Spire
• Upper Blackrock Spire

Level 70

• Karazhan 
• Zul'Aman  (2.3.0)
  • Planned to return as a level 85 5-man Heroic in  Patch 4.1

20-playerLevel 70

• Zul'Gurub (1.7.0)
  • Planned to return as level 85 5-man Heroic in  Patch 4.1

25-playerLevel 70

• Sunwell Plateau  (2.4.0)

40-playerLevel 60

• Molten Core
• Blackwing Lair (1.6.0)
• Naxxramas (1.11.0)

10 and 25-playerLevel 85

• Baradin Hold  (faction needs to control Tol Barad)
• Blackwing Descent  (in Blackrock Mountain)
• The Bastion of Twilight  (in Grim Batol)

 Northrend 

10 and 25-player

Level 80

• Naxxramas
• Vault of Archavon (faction needs to control Wintergrasp Keep)
  • Archavon the Stone Watcher
  • Emalon the Storm Watcher (3.1.0)
  • Koralon the Flame Watcher (3.2.0)
  • Toravon the Ice Watcher (3.3.2)
• Chamber of Aspects
  • Obsidian Sanctum
  • Ruby Sanctum (3.3.5)
• The Eye of Eternity
• Ulduar (3.1.0)
• Trial of the Crusader (3.2.0)
• Trial of the Grand Crusader (3.2.0)
• Icecrown Citadel (3.3.0)

 Elemental Plane 

10 and 25-playerLevel 85

• Firelands (NYI)
• Throne of the Four Winds

 Outland 

25-playerLevel 70

• Gruul's Lair
• Magtheridon's Lair
• Serpentshrine Cavern
• The Eye
• Black Temple (2.1.0)

Raid outdoor 

Azeroth 

OutdoorLevel 60

• Dragons of Nightmare (1.8.0)
  • Emeriss
  • Lethon
  • Taerar
  • Ysondre
• Highlord Kruul (Dark Portal opening event, pre-

Kalimdor 

Outdoor

• Azuregos (1.3.0; became  quest-giver in Azshara in  Patch 4.0.1)
• Omen

Eastern Kingdoms 

OutdoorLevel 60

• Teremus the Devourer
• Lord Kazzak (1.3.0)

 Outland 

OutdoorLevel 70

• Doom Lord Kazzak
• Doomwalker

 

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