(11-19-2014, 09:53 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I think this is why there's such a large disparity between the raiding community and the non-raiding community. There's really no place to practice your skills for raiding outside of raiding and that basically means you don't raid unless you're already raiding with raiders who were raiding. All applicants must have experience in the field to join at an entry level. Self-defeating.This is actually something I noticed and was bothered by back in WoW. "To run this raid, you have to have run this raid." Before the advent of the Raid Finder modes and the like, the only way to get experience on the raid content was to have an in through a friend in a raiding guild who was willing to vouch for you.
It's certainly not a field you can just waltz into, and I still remember how daunting it was as a fledgling raider back in the days of Molten Core 40 mans. At least there, the raid sizes were so bloated that you could coast along on everyone else's skill until you got the hang of things. I'm terrified to think how such things work in Coil, where there's such a difference in raider number. As such, I've only gotten to the first Coil... 2 (?) - the one before the "bouncy castle" - and that was through Duty Finder queues.
