This seems like a pretty difficult initiative. It's easy enough to interest a progression-oriented player in role-playing between raids, but the community surrounding progression tends to be a lot more sink-or-swim.
I think what you're looking for here, Rock, is a major raiding guild with a few good members who also enjoy roleplay, and is willing to share strategies for cutting edge content, not really out of obligation, but through the connections we foster to these guilds, via the members we get to know, (or by inserting members of this community who like raiding into those guilds).
When we know who they're raiding with, we can go up to the leaders of these guilds and say, "hey, we've been getting along really well with your guys, and they tell me you've recently cleared boss x, who we've been wiping on. I don't suppose you'd mind helping us out by explaining the strat?"
A lot of progression-types are happy to do this, even on cut-throat servers. They do this because it makes them feel good, in the same way teaching new roleplayers makes us feel good. You play on their ego a little bit, and they're usually ready to spill the beans, particularly if the people they're sharing the info with aren't really a competitor, in terms of the race to kill all bosses.
But unless you find an entire progression guild that wants to try RP out, leaders and all, they're not terribly likely to view what we're offering them in a "trade" as useful or valuable. This is pretty much as ArmaichiA said it.
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One other thing we can do, really, is teach each other. Being a decent raider is mostly just browsing message boards, watching youtubes of boss kills, and maybe busting out windows calc now and then to make sure your crit/attack/hit ratio is ideal for the boss. I've been a raidnerd for years, Rock, so if you want to run with me up the instance ladder, I think we'd have a grand ol' time of it.
I think what you're looking for here, Rock, is a major raiding guild with a few good members who also enjoy roleplay, and is willing to share strategies for cutting edge content, not really out of obligation, but through the connections we foster to these guilds, via the members we get to know, (or by inserting members of this community who like raiding into those guilds).
When we know who they're raiding with, we can go up to the leaders of these guilds and say, "hey, we've been getting along really well with your guys, and they tell me you've recently cleared boss x, who we've been wiping on. I don't suppose you'd mind helping us out by explaining the strat?"
A lot of progression-types are happy to do this, even on cut-throat servers. They do this because it makes them feel good, in the same way teaching new roleplayers makes us feel good. You play on their ego a little bit, and they're usually ready to spill the beans, particularly if the people they're sharing the info with aren't really a competitor, in terms of the race to kill all bosses.
But unless you find an entire progression guild that wants to try RP out, leaders and all, they're not terribly likely to view what we're offering them in a "trade" as useful or valuable. This is pretty much as ArmaichiA said it.
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One other thing we can do, really, is teach each other. Being a decent raider is mostly just browsing message boards, watching youtubes of boss kills, and maybe busting out windows calc now and then to make sure your crit/attack/hit ratio is ideal for the boss. I've been a raidnerd for years, Rock, so if you want to run with me up the instance ladder, I think we'd have a grand ol' time of it.
Yeldir's Wiki:Â
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index....r_Melfusor
Gilgamesh! Show your interest and RP pride in the official beta forums:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/th...RP-server. (Mind the trolls!)
http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/wiki/index....r_Melfusor
Gilgamesh! Show your interest and RP pride in the official beta forums:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/th...RP-server. (Mind the trolls!)
