I'd just like to start by saying I'm retired from leading vox/naggy raids. I sorta go into it near the end, but I felt I could pass some of my information along. All this information is accurate to the best of my "vast" knowlegdge. It can be applied to Vox as well with some minor adjustments. I don't feel like making a seperate post tonite, this one took me 2 hours, but maybe another time.
Please excuse the typos, its 3:20 in the morning.
Well here's what my DAY of running a vox or naggy raid is like. Well do a weekday one since thats when most happen. After I get home from school (2:30) Log on immediately (no life I know =)) /join buysell, /1 Anyone killed naggy yet? Wait two minutes and repeat /1 Anyone killed naggy yet. Then someone else will say, "Is he spawning today?" thats your que,/1 "Naggy raid forming 46-52 pst with level and class" /join nagtheoldhag, Every tell you get right down the name and their level and class on a piece of paper. No joke, the recruiting on buysell will last on average 2-5 hours. 5:30, you look at your list of names and should see bout 25, depending on what your loot rules will be (we'll hear more bout loot rules later). You'll notice that about 20% of your raid force is paladins, 10% Bards, 50% other melee, 10% Druids, and 5% wizards, and 5% other casters (These statistics are results of 15 Naggy raids and not including vox raids, where more casters do come). YOU WILL BE EXTREMELY LUCKY IF YOU HAVE 2 CLERICS AT THIS POINT. Although most likely you will not have any. Also dont expect any shamen to come. So /w all 46 Cle - /w all 52 cle, and send a tell to EVERY cleric you see. /tell joeshmoethehealler "Would you like to join a raid on Naggy, the loot rules are (insert loot rules here)"
6:30 And you finally got 3 Clerics. I have successfully raided Naggy with only 2 clerics and had only one death, ironically, one of the clerics, but I received tells for the next week telling me congrats and that it was the best raid with under 4 clerics ever. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND, unless you have extremely twinked people or very experianced raiders and you know what your doing, to not even try if you can't get 4 clerics along. Ok. Now if you've still been recruiting, and writing names down, you should have around 34 people on your list. Tell everyone to gather at the LS rings. 7:15. You can begin to create groups. There are many ways you can do this but heres my reccomended style:
G1 Yourself (Looter), MA (this should be a 52 Warrior), Nuker (highest level wizard there), Healer (highest level Cleric), another tank (Highest level sk or pally, your choice but i usually go with the sk), and SA (Next highest warrior to MA or a 52 monk)* Please note if you are one of the classes listed, place a bard in your group. Since I am one thats who was in the yourself group. This group is designed to be the XP group and should do the most damage to Naggy.
G2 Leader should be someone you know well, and group should have a cleric, 3 melee, 1 caster, and a bard. This is the reliable group, They should know what they are doing, and should you need to escort someone from zone, or go back and rez someone you send this group to do it.
G3 - G6, Each group should have either a cleric, shamen, or 2 druids, Make the leaders people who seem compedent and respond when you ask them things. Other then the healers, just jumble the other people into groups but try to evenly distribute based on levels, if you have a 52 warrior left, put him in with the 45 ranger that begged and begged to get in. This is to ensure that you get the xp and no one stands a chance at ninjaing.
8:00 (No joke) Everyone should be into groups now. And it is time to go over rules. *Loot rules are first*. *They are all anyone cares about. Defaulting one item is expected. Dont loot something like the cloak of flames, however, or no one will join you raid. Acceptable defaults are epic pieces and specific class only items. For the other loot the best way I have found is to simply say "NBG One Roll only". When rolling have everyone who wants in on the item send you a tell, and assign each a number, Forbz 1, Trevorz 2, Deathtotrevorz 3, Othercharactersidontlike 4, and then you /random 0 5. Whatever number it lands on, the corresponding person wins. If it rolls a 0 or a 5 you reroll. So if i rolled 3, in this case, Deathtotrevorz wins the roll. There are other details to that though, for example if two of the same item drop, you use the same list of people and /rand 0 X, twice. But most important thing to emphasize is the NBG, Need Before Greed. Meaning, that a ranger can roll on a Cloak of Flames but a Shamen can't.*
Next rules, (8:30ish)
"If anyone does anything I directly tell them not to do, they lose their roll. Example: Trevorz Do NOT GOTO NAGGYS DOOR, and then Trevorz goes to naggys door, having him get argo and cause chaos resulting in your only lost raid. Also if anyone does lose their roll, I will not tell them till after naggy is dead so they can not desert."
That is the most effective thing any leader can say. It worked every time I used it.
Be sure to add that no one should ever pass you or whoever is guiding you to the prep room or leading the way, or, they too, will lose their roll.
Move into Solb (9:00), Hack, slash, slap, spit, nuke, and nibble your way to the Stone Spider room (9:20). Move to the first giants and kill them. Then have a monk pull the throne room and make sure everyone assists the MA. You should have killed them all and rolled on the desireable items by 10:00. The rolls do not count as naggy rolls but are, also, NBG. Now move to the bridge. Be sure to repeat this next one at least 3 times -
"DO NOT TOUCH THE BRIDGE. IF YOU TOUCH THE BRIDGE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR ROLL. MOVE DOWN ONE GROUP AT A TIME WHEN I CALL YOU. IF YOU MOVE DOWN BEFORE I CALL YOUR GROUP YOU LOSE YOUR ROLL. IF YOUR GROUP IS CROSSING AND SOMEONE OTHER THEN ME CLICKS THE BRIDGE YOUR WHOLE GROUP LOSES ITS ROLL. DO NOT TOUCH THE BRIDGE.
Proceed then by have G1 go first. G2 and so on. While you lower then bridge, raise it, call next group down. lower it, raise it again, etc.
10:20 If you lucky no one attacked the prep room and your still alive. For those of you who didnt read the whole thing first, my guess is you just ran across and then met your maker after someone pulled the prep room. Well, if you did read the whole thing, and you didnt get killed by the prep giants yet, Good for you. Now pull the prep, once everyone is in the corner before it.
10:30 Whoot giants done... Wait no they aren't.... Time for you to apprieciate your monks and their FD abilities. Have a monk pull the giants out of Naggys lair. Now your ready to be buffed.
10:50 Let the buffing begin. First make sure everyone clicked off ALL BUFFS. Then have everyone put on 5 crap buffs, Crap buffs are buffs that are not important for killing naggy. IE. Enduring Breath, Resist Poison, Resist Disease, etc. After 5 craps, put on real buffs. You can have 60 Cleric and 60 shamen come along to help with this one, although their price will generally include any jewels dropped by the dragons. If your on Xegony, I reccomend sending a tell to Mrwind or Donna. Very fair person to deal with.
11:20. All buffed up. While the buffing is going on, you should be making a hotkey for the following information:
Make sure everyone knows who the MA is and to assist him.
Make sure your nukers dont nuke until you say NUKE. (Say at 50% of naggys life)
*Say the loot rules.*
Make sure no one trys to push Naggy into lava and if they do they will regret it for the remainder of their lives on this earth.
Make sure the cleric in your group is healing the MA primarly, you secondly, then the rest of your group.
Make sure all the other healers are targeting Naggy, /assist, and then healing whoever naggy is attacking, primarly, the members of their group secondly.
Make sure clerics do not use Complete heal.
Make sure all melee know to stay on the same side of the MA and to switch sides of naggy when he calls out "Switch"
Make sure everyone knows that the MA will run in and start attacking Naggy in the center of room, you will count to 5, in your head, and then tell everyone to go. Everyone will wait till you say go, except the MA.
*Say the loot rules again.*
11:45, Go to the bathroom, its been a long day.
11:47. get everyone in front of naggys door, against the wall looking at the door. Have the MA go in. Count to five. Then tell everyone to GO
11:48 Your mind should stop time. You should be able to tell 60 seconds into the fight if you will win or lose. If more then 3 people have died. You could be in trouble.
11:49 You should have naggy to at least 50% at which point you should have everyone Nuke that can.
11:50 If he isnt dead yet. It will be a close one but we will assume hes dead by now so start rezzing everyone.
11:55 Everyone should be rezzed so you start doing the rolls for items. It is at this time you will start to see why I retired from Vox and Naggy raids.
"WHAT!?! I DONT REMEMBER YOU DOING LOOT RULES?!??!"
Now had you done everything as I said. You should have said loot rules 3 times. Just look for the *'s. But after someone loses a roll, they feel like they have been cheated and cant accept that they gambled and lost. Id expect this to happen in vegas if the gamblers never saw the dealers, the pitbosses, the managers, and the video cameras, and just gambled there money over the computer. Unfortunitly, the people who lose rolls dont ever get to meet me, so they feel like they can say whatever they want. They can say the rolls were fixed. They can say my loot rules are unheard of. They can say I am a pathetic raid leader despite me just leading them to victory.
IT HAPPENS. IF YOU CANT HANDLE THE BAD COMMENTS DONT LEAD THESE RAIDS. Dont get me wrong. I get compliments and apprieciative people more then 10 times as often as the "ungrateful" (my name for the complainers). But the "ungrateful" have a way of getting to you more.
12:29 Thank everyone for joining your raid. Even the "ungratefuls".
12:30 (yes thats a.m.) Ok this shindig should be over. Make sure everyone gets a TL or TP out of the lair and to a prefered destination, and get out of there yourself.
12:40 ;tell.xegony Tvardary Thank you for telling me how to lead a successful raid against naggy, You forgot to add (insert something here, im sure i forgot something) but it still worked.
Thanks for reading it all. This should work, although I am doing it by memory.