Late mercing killed

"DwightHalpert;948107" wrote:
I like this update. For me a guild is a team working to accomplish a common goal... bringing in some ringers always felt dirty to me.

How are you going to gauge your progress in different phases if you never SEE them. Sure we can kill P1, and we're working on P2, but until you see P3 you dont know how good your team is, or P4 for that matter, if you use up everything you have to get through P2, once you get to P3 you have nothing left to gauge where you are.

We recently had a merc group come in and help us out. We got some very very valuable intel from it.

P1 - We were over prepared, we can actually do it with about 10 folks
P2 - Completely gutted us. Our Droids are no where near where they need to be.
P3 - Much easier than we thought, we have this one already.
P4 - A couple Princes Cody's will fix this phase leaving us to use more Rebels in P2.

Without seeing all the phases, and being able to throw ourselves at the phases we never see we'd never be able to razor focus the guild.

Merc's come in to not only show you the phases; but clean up after we've had bad RNG or bad timing where people are out or waste groups that they dont need to.

Of course the Merc's finished 1-6, that's the nature of the game, we were very appreciative of their service and thanked them. Without their help we'd of not gotten to see or take advantage of the information required to perform in the raid properly.

Also, we started out with 2 or 3 Mercs, once the raid started, we found out we needed 2 more; without them being able to get rewards I doubt we'd of been able to entice them to show up and help.