Wreckers

Raids

June 9, 2008 – June 15, 2008
How Long Can You Last?
Talk to Whizzlebang Twempt in the Steamfont Mountains for further details

June 16, 2008 – June 22, 2008
Can You Beat The Clock?
Talk to Whizzlebang Twempt in the Steamfont Mountains to find out more

June 23, 2008 – June 29, 2008
How Many Foes Can You Handle?
Dougan Merule in South Ro has more details

June 30, 2008 – July 6, 2008
We've Seen You Take It? Can You Dish It Out?
See Denlin Merodon in the Plane of Knowledge for the answer

July 7, 2008 – July 25, 2008
Bonus Round! All Raids Live simultaneously.

There's new raid-level content as well?

Ryan: Yeah, we have four new raids coming out that are short-term. They're actually competitions, and there's a different win condition for each one. Depending on how far a guild gets in each raid dictates what kind of reward they get. It's graded on a curve, so you see the best players getting the best reward, the next one down getting a slightly worse reward, etc. They're on a short-term timer, I think about two weeks for all of them.

Are there going to be individual ladders for each server?

Ryan: It is by server, so whoever is on the top on each server gets rewarded. Everyone else is graded by how close they were to the top group. It's a per server, per raid kind of thing.

Can you give us a sense of what the raids are like?

Ryan: We've got four different raids. Two are variations on a theme. You've got Marathon raid, he's a giant clockwork. He keeps respawning and you get points for the number of waves you get through. Then there's a sprint raid, that's how many waves you can make it through in an hour. The endurance raid is under Desert of Ro, and in that one the creature has captured someone.

You need to hold off an overwhelming force that will eventually kill you. You're scored based on how long you last. The last raid is basically a DPS raid. You have to aim for as much damage you can do to this guy in a set amount of time, about an hour. It'll all be tracked on the EQ Players site. We'll have the leaderboards, the raid groups, how you're doing compared to everybody else.

I'd say they should start at the Demiplane level and go from there. The way they're set up you and your raid force will have to find out, individually, how far you can take these things. They're set up to be somewhat similar to the Arena group fight in Freeport in that they start off relatively easy and then just get harder and harder. I won't spoil the events too much though - you'll need to get in there and find out for yourself. It is a competition, after all, complete with leader boards and everything.