Congratulations to Team Instinct for defeating the Heroic Tier of the Rancor Raid!!!

@DarthMaxikk I think you misunderstood. PRIOR to starting the raid some of the normal 'Team Instinct' members swapped spots with those in 'Instinct Legends' to stack the deck. I was one of those people. My roster is no where near as good as the top guys in Legends, so it made sense since we did not know exactly what we were getting in to. After the raid started, no swapping occurred.

"YugeJazz;373285" wrote:

"trillizo_y_uno;373281" wrote:

"YugeJazz;373250" wrote:

"InternetSwag;373241" wrote:
@Naecabon How frequently are you planning on running heroic now that you've nailed it?

"BentWookiee;373150" wrote:
Ok.. going to say this now. *IF* you are going to troll a thread it's kind of silly to do it here. :/

Please get rid of him.

He brings balance to the force. Highly valuable @Naecabon.

@BentWookiee Just curious, his trolling aside, how is a username like YugeJazz is allowed on the forums?

Because it doesn't violate any TOS. Nice try @trillizo_y_uno!

Maybe you should get your head outta your Jazz, maybe?

"Zama_Zeckur;373235" wrote:
No offence to anyone, but leader boards based on speed of spending to be able to do it doesn't seem like a feat to me. If there was no monetary purchases, I'm sure it would not have happened so fast.

@BentWookiee it's weird to see a mod in a guild. Especially if there is a chance of biased towards other posters against it.

Next, u will tell john salera and jesse to stop playing too

Congrats all!

I recently joined the guild not knowing anything about the internal workings. A pleasant surprise has been how well the guild communicates on all levels, which I feel was the biggest factor in how quickly the guild was able to clear the content, more so than people's rosters (though that is obviously important too). The leadership was easily accessible, listened to everyone's suggestions and concerns, kept people focused, and developed some great tactics to put people in a fantastic position to succeed. These are the kind of things that never get brought up since they are only visible to the members of the guild.

If there are any hardcore players out there that meet the minimum requirements, I would highly recommend applying (even though we may be full atm). High visibility guilds tend to be polarizing so take what you see/hear with a grain of salt. This is a fun environment to play and collaborate in.

Lastly, thank you devs for adding a different dimension of gameplay with raids (as well as all of the things you have worked on). Hope you will continue to bring us new and exciting experiences.

"Naecabon;373282" wrote:
... but we won't be releasing any information on damage etc until at least Thursday at the earliest.

@Alclonn, I'll wait until Thursday for your answer :wink:

@DarthMaxikk You are wrong, if someone was on the leaderboard in a raid and leaves the guild, their name shows up on the leaderboard as 'Mol Eliza'. Any leaderboard filled with those is a sign that swapping happened.

Ok stop the "cheating" accusations.

This raid was done with one roster of 50 member intact from the start of the raid to the end. I was on that roster and would have not participated if it had been done any other way.

Exploiting is taken very serious in this game, people can and have been banned. No one would risk that.

You can be sure this was done without any exploits or cheats.

"LordAlvert;373164" wrote:
Nice job. Really thought it would be later... I guess most of you are 79 or 80 though. I'm assuming this did take a ton of coordination. You all probably rolled out almost the exact same 5 toons for each mission segment cause you all have the 25 best for this.

It would be awesome if you SHARED that information.

Most of us have some guesses. It's pretty simple. If you all have the top 25 toons mostly gear 9 then each of you rolls out he exact same squad against each segment and if you average 2pct each you win with a squad on the bench.

Because you can pull out and it is a very fast process, it is easy to concoct squads that average 400k 500k. "Okay guys: gammoreans use ewoks plus RG. Rancor II and III use first order and then Jedi yoda qgj." And for the last I hate to say it cause I know how to win that one.

Agreed, its great that you guys were able to do it so quick. Congrats!

But withholding strategies that could help out the entire community seems a bit elitist to me. Many would love to know how to do the raid more effectively, especially if they have less toons to focus on. I would personally love to know which toons are best for raiding so that my FTP self can start getting them to 7* now.

Its going to take my guild (Mighty Chlorians represent) about 2-3 months before we can even start this raid confidently, so why not help out those in need with some toon advice?

"J0K3R;373303" wrote:

"Zama_Zeckur;373235" wrote:
No offence to anyone, but leader boards based on speed of spending to be able to do it doesn't seem like a feat to me. If there was no monetary purchases, I'm sure it would not have happened so fast.

@BentWookiee it's weird to see a mod in a guild. Especially if there is a chance of biased towards other posters against it.

Next, u will tell john salera and jesse to stop playing too

When did I say stop?

"Zama_Zeckur;373321" wrote:

"J0K3R;373303" wrote:

"Zama_Zeckur;373235" wrote:
No offence to anyone, but leader boards based on speed of spending to be able to do it doesn't seem like a feat to me. If there was no monetary purchases, I'm sure it would not have happened so fast.

@BentWookiee it's weird to see a mod in a guild. Especially if there is a chance of biased towards other posters against it.

Next, u will tell john salera and jesse to stop playing too

When did I say stop?

Stop trolling