PUGs

Seeing the recent discussions on the topic of PUGs lately I've compiled this list of all the raids in the game. Hopefully this will help get more PUGs going on WW in the future. I've divided them into different categories depending on their difficulty with a 75 PUG raid. From hardest to easiest depending on their need of tactics and possibility of dying;

Insanity
Professional
Experienced
Advanced
Friendly
Overkill



Rift (all bosses) - Overkill

Filikul - Overkill

DN
Twin Trolls - Overkill
Zholuga - Overkill
Flagit - Advanced
Istum - Friendly
Blind One - Advanced
Mistress - Advanced

BG
Durchest - Friendly
Durchest (hm) - Advanced
Twins - Advanced
Twins (hm) - Advanced
Liutanent - Advanced/Experienced
Liutanent (hm) - Experienced

OD
Wound Wing - Friendly
Wound Wing (hm) - Advanced
Disease Wing - Friendly
Disease Wing (hm) - Advanced
Fear Wing - Advanced
Fear Wing (hm) - Experienced
Poison Wing - Friendly
Poison Wing (hm) - Advanced
Ivar - Advanced
Ivar (hm) - Professional
Gortheron - Experienced
Gortheron (hm) - Professional/Experienced

Draigoch - Friendly

Orthanc
Acid Wing - Friendly
Acid Wing (t2) - Insanity
Fire/Frost - Advanced
Fire/Frost (t2) - Insanity
Storm - Experienced
Storm (t2) - Insanity
Shadow - Experienced/Professional
Shadow (t2) - Insanity
Saruman - Professional/Insanity
Saruman (t2) - Insanity


Hope this list helps to get more PUGs going

I wouldn't say rift is overkill. Perhaps some of the later bosses, but as far as I can remember the first 3 were pretty easy and trash pulls only need little tactics.

It's a good idea to make this list though.

Overkill is the easiest category in Fralins list, in case you missed that. Rift and Filikul are uniquely easy compared to all the other instanced raids because they can almost not fail even with simple tank and spank. Few insta-defeat conditions etc.

A bit sad that people tend to leave Rift raids again once they realize that this is the proper raid and not a "Rescue in the Rift" skirmraid - I still find the boss quite imposing.

I don t think at this point you could finish Ivar (hm) with a pug on Whity, so it should be under the insanity category or at least Professional since it is harder then Gortheron (hm)

And acid ring T2 is in the Advanced/Experienced category? :) you probably haven t tried it on T2 yet

Ivar is a tough fight, especially on t2, so that has been updated. As for Acid, the problem is not the boss itself but rather getting there in the first place. With a properly balanced PUG it should be doable.

Half of them are easy with right people, now problem is in skilled players, so it makes more off a hard play for majority of those, lol...

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Originally Posted by zrinko

Half of them are easy with right people, now problem is in skilled players, so it makes more off a hard play for majority of those, lol...

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I can't wait for you - teacher of champions - to teach everyone about the raid, really looking forward to it!

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Originally Posted by zrinko

Half of them are easy with right people, now problem is in skilled players, so it makes more off a hard play for majority of those, lol...

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Originally Posted by eois

I can't wait for you - teacher of champions - to teach everyone about the raid, really looking forward to it!

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Zrinko still boasting? Maybe I should take back my comment on the other whithy post about him starting to clean up his act. Agree with Eois's quote.

I feel like helping PuGs to a redirect to this plugin http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...87#post6353687

It tells to a newbie everything he needs to know, from Debuffs to specific bosses animation skills.

Nevertheless even if the newbie is not using the plugin, it provides to the raid leader the tools neccesary to explain the fight quick and provides chat-commands in different colours to be see to notice like a Purple text of - Remove Corruptions - that is hard to be missed by newbies reading chat.

Anyway, it also have the detailed list of Loot of every raid boss in the game, maps, you can add your personal strategys and it uses in-game database to link items.

Welcome to the new easy way to do PUGs :) (Looking forward for feedback).