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Hey everyone! As @Owyn mentioned, I'll be taking over organizing and leading the Tuesday night PROPS team. I've got a few ideas on how to organize the group, and I'd like to get your feedback on them. So without further ado, here are the main facets I'm adding. Take a moment to read through each of them. These will become the rules and law of the group, so this is the time to add your voice and influence the team's direction! I've added spoilers with my comments and reasoning behind some of them if you're curious on why I'm pushing us a certain way. Objective Strike Team Alpha is a Master Mode progression group. MM operations require dedication and skill from every team member. There are no backpacks in these fights! While the team will push for the hardest operation content in the game, there will be plenty of opportunities to train and prepare both current and new members for the challenge. If you want to get into MM operations but don't think you're good enough, this is the group for you. Anyone who has the commitment to learn and improve is welcome! Schedule The group will raid on Tuesday night from 9:00pm ET to 11:00pm ET, or 11:30pm ET. The raid will extend an extra 30 minutes only if we are close to pushing a boss and all team members can stay later. Team Members The team will consist of 8 primaries and additional alternates. The primary raiders are expected to be available 3 out of 4 raids per month. If they cannot consistently be available, they will step into an alternate position and allow an alternate to become a primary. Roles Raid roles (Tank, DPS, Heal) are not fixed per member. In fact, this team will actively encourage role swapping. Members are expected to learn different classes, specs, and roles. Practice Week One week during each month, the group will stop its current progression in Master Mode and go into a Veteran Mode operation. During this week, alternates who have not raided in a while will be given priority over primaries. Additionally, every member is expected to change one facet of their raider. They may choose a different spec for their class, switch to another class entirely, or switch to a different role. The purpose of practice week is to: 1. Provide opportunities to train new alternates who want to become primaries 2. Encourage primaries to learn new specs, classes, and roles and grow their skill as a raider Communication The team will use the current primary VOIP tool for Remnants of Hope. (At the time of writing that is TeamSpeak). This will be used for raid nights, and other ROH members may join and listen in. Keep in mind that if you join and are not part of the raid team, you will need to remain quiet during boss fights. In addition to the VOIP tool for raid nights, every member (primaries and alternates) must supply one method of instant communication to the leader of the team. Instant means that you will receive a notification immediately and be able to respond within 5 minutes. Some example methods could be: Discord handle (with mobile app notifications) Phone number for texting Skype or any other instant message app Another member who has your contact information Last minute changes happen all the time. Someone may get caught at work or have a family emergency come up. At that time, it is the member's responsibility to tell the leader and the leader's responsibility to find a replacement ASAP. If the leader has a way to instantly reach all primaries and alternates, they'll be able to find a replacement faster than through the forums. This will mean more opportunities for alternates, fewer canceled raid nights, and fewer late starts. Be sure to read through everything! Now is the time to add your voice to the discussion and influence how the team is led and where it should be going. @Tyrlo @Aravail @Sayuri @Orig Wrangler @Vorn @Passiflora @BattingChart @Hippy @RaVem @Rama

Thanks for the welcome! I'm actually currently playing Divinity II right now, but I own DOS2. It's just gonna take me a bit to get there, but once I do I'd definitely love to play with you guys.

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That's the purpose of the practice week. Bring your MM-ready melee DPS to the raid nights, then on the practice week you can bring something else to work on! Could be that gunslinger we were talking about, or you could try our your tank spec. We are devoting time to practice and learn in order to make the team more knowledgeable and flexible. Practice week is not MM. The point of us doing different roles and classes is not to be able to do MM in each of them. For example, I don't expect @Sayuri to roll a MM DPS. It's not her forte and she would not enjoy it. However, I do expect her to know what it's like to be a DPS. She does already know that by the way, and it gives her a huge advantage when she tanks or heals. So no, you probably won't tank Master Mode anytime soon unless you really want to. For you specifically, I would encourage you to work on a ranged DPS for practice week. You'll learn another dimension of the DPS role and you'll start to work up a secondary DPS character if one week we have too many melee. Glad to hear you're interested! This is actually the exact thing I don't want to do. There are a couple reasons why: 1. This team is open and inclusive. If we had a private chat or server, people couldn't drop in and listen. That's how we get new members interested in MM raiding, by leaving the doors open. 2. Discord is a social media platform. I won't force someone to join it in order to participate on the team, nor will I force them to divulge their handle to the whole group if they don't want to. We don't need Discord for anything. The only thing we need is a way for me to quickly get in contact with raiders individually, and there are many ways outside of Discord to achieve that goal. That's why I want to let members decide where and how I'm allowed to contact them.

Hi all! @Katalaw has agreed to become the group leader for Tuesday nights and has some interesting ideas. I'll be making her an assistant for all those officer things that need to be done. I will be deleting the currently posted raid on the calendar so that Kat can create individual events for each week. Please be sure to check in with her and offer some congratulations. Have fun killing some big terrible baddies. @Tyrlo @Aravail @Sayuri @Orig Wrangler @Vorn @Passiflora @BattingChart @Hippy @RaVem .

I believe @witchbolts can sometimes do daytime stuff. That being said I don’t mind trying Friday and/or Wednesday’s after 7pm CST/8pm EST. I think it took like two weeks to hash out our first play session with Savvy and I, but it was a lot of fun. You get an interesting dynamic with other players. Also there are mods which allow up to 6 people in a party, and the game still runs with some degree or stability, you can have more, but some unpredictable things happen. @Nyx welcome to the group! If there is a time that works for you let us know. Tags: @Carg, @Jaqques

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