Written By Trollemite

RAIDING BOILERPLATE:

SKILLS/SPELLS (MUST MAX):
1.  rescue
2.  aim
3.  cure blind
4.  blind
5.  web
6.  dissolve
7.  intimidate
8.  incomplete healing
9.  party heal
10. invis
11. sneak
12. retreat
13. survey
14. hunt
15. globe
16. antimagic
17. strangle
18. scrolls
19. fly
20. dispel or dampening field
21. an area attack spell (preferably c 84 or firebreath)
22. word of recall
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NOTE - Intimidate/Web/Fly/Dissolve

SECTOR TYPE - AIR SECTOR
The typical thing for all maze rooms is to designate the room AIR SECTOR.

Q:  Why AIR SECTOR?
A:  Effectively, it thwarts raiders from dropping an item in the room to mark
it...

Q:  How does this affect nagivation?
A:  You cannot move to adjacent rooms without having fly on. You can fly by
using c levitate, c fly, or the wings of aard.

Q:  What does this have to do with the skill intimidate?
A:  You cannot be intimidated to adjacent rooms if you are not flying.
Alternatively,you cannot be intimidated if you are webbed.
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READ CAREFULLY SO AS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF INTIMIDATE:
1.  Intimidate is a key way of adversely affecting a raid party or a
defending party
2.  In particular you can intimidate a defender into a jail room or
another maze room where they cannot return to the instant room where
the party is.  And likewise, they can do the same to you.
3.  To intimidate the target, in a typical maze, that target must be
flying and unwebbed.
4. To avoid being intimidated, make sure you are not flying and are
webbed.
5.  Typically, its a good idea to not use fly in your spellup and rely
on wings of aardwolf (they have flying as an effect).
6.  The reason to use both avoidance techniques (not flying and unwebbed)
is simple:  Any player may cast fly on you readily including lowbies in
the maze affording the opportunity of a larger SH to intimidate you upon
entry.  Same reasoning with dissolve.  It's just good practice.

NAVIGATION STEPS:
SITUATION 1: Where defenders are waiting in a PORTAL DESTINATION
1.  Web self, wear wings
2.  Raid leader moves party by entering portal
3.  Remove wings, wear back item
4.  Web only affects cardinal movement e.g. moving w/e/n/s/u/d
5.  You can web self prior to entering portal destinations

SITUATION 2:  Where defenders are waiting in an ADJACENT ROOM
1.  Wear wings
2.  Raider leader moves party by moving the direction
3.  Remove wings immediately upon entry
4.  Web Self

INTIMIDATING TARGET:
1.  Most experienced defenders will know to be webbed and not be flying
2.  What you need to do is
A) dissolve target,
B) then cast fly on target
C) then intimidate target
D) only attempt intimidate if you have a build high in INT/CON/LUCK
E) builds with low INT OR CON are susceptable to intimidate

3.  Dissolve cannot be casted while in combat so dissolve must be attempted
first.
4.  Then cast fly, then use the skill intimidate.
5.  Those with low int/con/luck builds are susceptable to intimidate
(e.g. warriors/ranger with 10 int build)

6.  Additionally, you should intimidate the targets with most hp and those
that deal most damage.  It's easier to kill the low hp targets.
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STRANGLE - sometimes we attempt to "STACK" commands so as to strangle
defenders
1.  Those with high STR/DEX/LUCK will be good at strangling.
2.  Targets with low STR/DEX/LUCK will be easily strangled. (So that means
normally paladins, mages, clerics will be strangled easy)
3.  Targets will normally be picked for you by the raid leader or other
experienced raiders.
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AREA ATTACKS - please remember area attacks changed with v3
1.  Area attacks no longer hit players by casting
2.  The Syntax for casting an area attack to hit players is as follows:
c 'fire breath' ALL
3.  If you do not want to hit players with the area attack use:
c 'fire breath'
4.  There will be instances where you are asked to area attack players as
well as clan guards.  Just be mindful of the change.

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ANTIMAGIC v. GLOBE - just watch what damage the guards are using and use
the appropriate spell.  Default guard damage is PUNCH (BASH).  Clans must
pay for the change in damtype of their guards.  Often times, clans have not
paid.

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AIM - You cannot AIM guards.  You may AIM away from guards to players.
However, should you want to aim a particular guard, you would have to rescue
the player targeting that guard.

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USEFUL SUBCLASS SKILLS/SPELLS:
1.  huntmaster (hunter)
2.  ambush (hunter)
3.  enrage (berseker)
4.  righteous anger (avenger)
5.  desecration (harmer)
6.  holy shield (priest)

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Huntmaster - part of navigating a maze involves hunting certain guards
e.g. hunt 17.guard
Where a player needs to hunt multiple instances of the guards, huntmaster
is useful

Ambush - this skill will primarily be useful when defending.  Ambush can
be useful where players are SKIPPING rooms because it would hault the skipping
player in that room briefly so as to web that player.

Note that ambush is reset if attacked by another player whom you are not
ambushing.  If a player attacks you either by charge, area attack, or direct
attack ambush will be cleared and will not have its intended purpose.

Enrage - As a general rule, don't enrage.  NEVER enrage while tanking a guard.
Only enrage when instructed to by the raid leader.  This is normally only done
where the party is FAST KILLING the guards.  NEVER enrage while defenders are
in the room OR defenders are expected to come soon.  DISABLE ALL ENRAGE TRIGGERS.

Righteous Anger - where a player you are fighting receives healing from numerous
sources (e.g. mass party heal by like 10 players) you receive revenge on them.
This skill is only useable when you have revenge.  It's always beneficial to have
because of the tempo of raiding with party heal as a chief spell.

Desecration - Reduces the effect of Sanctuary substantially on players and clan
guards.

Holy Shield - nullifies the effect of Desecration on opponents.
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USEFUL EQUIPMENT:
1.  aard shield
2.  wings of aard
3.  true seeing helm


AARD SHIELD
1.  while raiding, always be shielded unless told expressly
otherwise by the raid leader
2. the shield of aard has the highest resists of any shield in the game
3. use the shield of aard unless you require another shield for stat
purposes

WINGS OF AARD
1.  this item grants the wearer the ability of fly spell

AARD HELM
1. typically you are engaged for a long period of time with guards or
defenders
2. should you be dispelled or true seeing wears off then you will not
be able to rescue fellow raiders

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USEFUL ITEMS:
1.  mana pots
2.  incomplete scrolls

INCOMPLETE SCROLLS - While unnecessary, they are totally beneficial
if you maintain a sufficient stock on hand during the raid.
Scrolls are always better than potions as they can target fellow raiders.
They can be used in clutch situations when you are out of combat briefly
while defenders are trying to engage

MANA POTS - I personally only carry mana pots during raids as we
tend to only use party heal and c incomplete for healing...  it saves
item slots by not carrying hp potions/scrolls

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USEFUL TOGGLING COMMANDS:
1.  groupspam OFF
2.  autoloot ON
3.  autosac OFF
4.  autoass OFF

GROUPSPAM OFF - to minimize the spam so you can see clearly

AUTOSAC OFF - should you not loot the key for whatever reason
(accidentally left autoloot off or over on item slots) then the
corpse is there temporarily until it floats away in air sector

AUTOASS/AUTOPK OFF - its always best to target specific
defenders or specific guards or to stay out of combat so you can
heal the tanks and/or "skip" rooms (occasionally you will be
told to autoass ON just in case you are out of combat long
enough to be strangled by defenders)

AUTOLOOT ON - simply to get the key if you don't use keyloot
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USEFUL RAIDING COMMANDS:
1.  Invade
2.  raid timers
3.  raid stats
4.  raidparty list
5.  raid -h
6.  raid clans
7.  suicide suicide

INVADE - command is used to initial enter the clan maze each time.  You
will ALWAYS want to stack invade maze_direction at the end of the speedwalk
to the maze entrance

The maze entrance door is closed by default, so be SURE to place a command
to open that door before invade otherwise defenders who are spamming may
catch you.

e.g. run 3d30w; open n; invade n

INVADE TRICK - IF you are sure the buffer is a prison (BE FORWARNED SOME ARE
NOT PRISON) you may add c word at the end of the stack

e.g. run 3d30w; open n; invade n; c word

The reason to do this is just in case defenders are spamming c 'fire breath'
or ambush you, you should be able to word out before you can get webbed

RAID TIMERS - a mere chart of reference for timers employed for raiding
circumstances.  It is beneficial to become familiar with ALL of the timers.
Please take note of this timer in particular -
Timeout before using 'invade' after a raider death     : 5 minutes.

RAID STATS - will show you your timer when you can re-invade; will also show
the time after the raid ends when the (RAIDER) flag will wear off

RAIDPARTY LIST - shows the list of who the raid leaders are and how many party
members are in the group; if you are a raid member it will show detailed information
as to the persons in the list

RAID -H - shows the history of the raid channel.  In particular, it will show disbanding
and successful breaches

RAID CLANS - shows the timer of when a clan can be raided again in HOURS.

SUICIDE SUICIDE - When asked to suicide this is the command you must time.
Upon death your hp and mana and moves will all revert to 10 each.  Please note
that dying to a clanguard will save the mana you have on hand.
It is NECESSARY for you to suicide at the time the raid leader instructs you to.
The reason why it is: at particular times the raid leader is mindful of the repop
times and attempting to coordination the raider timeout after death with that
repop time. So while you might save yourself some quaffing by dying to a guard
instead of using the suicide suicide command, please pay particular attention
IF the suicide request is emergent.

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USEFUL DEFINITIONS: (tips/notes will follow each definition)

SKIP - relating to not killing a guard room because we have
the keys from that guard room already

1.  DOUBLE CHECK:  AUTOASS OFF, C DISSOLVE
2.  incomplete the main tank (all requests to heal are always to
use the c incomplete spell, no other healing spell)
3.  wait until the raid leader locates the proper direction by hunting
4.  the raid leader will move the party when that location is found

FERRYING - relating to a room that has guards in it and
portals needed to be entered into

1.  DOUBLE CHECK:  AUTOASS OFF
2.  one tank will charge/move into the room thereby engaging all the mobs
3.  players manually follow the direction that the tank charged into
4.  players stack which portal to enter

STACKING - using the semi colon to stack a series of navigation commands

For example, enter 2.cportal; scan; enter 3.cportal
Should you be asked to stack commands, BE INVIS, SNEAKING.

SLOW KILL - relating to guards only, repop is anticipated in
a short amount of time, so a party leader will instruct you to slow kill
so we have the precise number of keys for 1 guardroom, no doubles and so
as to not worry about which player the repop might target

1. if a guard is <40 percent remove weapons
2.  renew if the guard you are aimed at, if need be
3.  rescue another player who is tanking a guard that does NOT have
a wounded flag (usually the last few guards on the list at the bottom)
4. if out of battle, could incomplete tanks instead of trying to
micromanage the damage you are dealing
5.  you cannot aim other guards (thats the reason for rescuing another
player)

FAST KILL - where tanks and others remove shield, dual wield and
use most offensive spells/skills to kill the guard room as
quickly as possible (for repop reasons) - if possible, berserkers
should not tank and should enrage.  REMEMBER:  Rewear shield after.

REPORTING - anytime you move to a location by yourself because
you were directed by the raid leader you will be asked to report.

WHAT YOU NEED TO REPORT -
1) number of portals in the room,
2) number of guards in the room,
3) locked doors,
4) open exits, and
5) players you see on scan and their directions

TIPS ON REPORTING -
1. when you move a direction, "stack" the commands, e.g.
enter 3.cportal; run e; scan; openall
2. create an alias called openall (or something comparable) that
effectively does:  open e, open w, open n, open s, open u, open d

e.g. #alias openall {open e; open w; open n; open s; open u; open d}

3. if guards aggro you that means you cannot do scan, so use survey
4. when reporting try your best to report on the same gtell message

e.g. gtell 7guards, 3portals, exits d/w/s, locked n
(note - one line is easier to use the history feature to collect all
the information by the raid leader)
5.  IMPORTANT:  repops and the death of a guard will CHANGE every report
so you must do it timely before the repop or death of a guard occurs!
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CHARGE - charging now makes the guards pissed off and attack harder
(this is a change from v2)
Tips -
1. be vis
2. walk the direction
3. if someone asks you to tank and charge a direction, just be vis/walk
the old convention was to charge, but its no longer the best way to do it
so the person asking may not remember this change.  No need to remind them
of the change, just follow the NO-CHARGE Rule.
4. EXCEPTION: where you are asked to charge so as to engage with the defenders
in the adjacent room.

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ITEM SLOTS:  keep a significant amount of item slots free while
raiding because if you run near max item slots and need to loot a key
but you are maxed on items that will cripple the party for a full repop

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TRIGGERS:  Please note that triggers are a detriment instead of
a benefit for the most part during raids.  You don't want to spam gtell
with reporting triggers, you do not want to trigger any forms of attacks (e.g.
because you will be told to party heal while engaged most times); The most
successful raider will NOT SPAM and NOT USE TRIGGERS.  You have to be able
to adapt to whatever the raid leader asks or what the raidparty needs.
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PURCHASING: Upon successfully navigating to the clanhall,
DO NOT purchase immediately upon arriving at the shopkeeper.
The reason is simple - afford everyone the opportunity to appraise and
determine what they want to buy because time is of the essence.

Upon leaving the cmaze after purchasing raided eq you MUST type
CLEAR RAIDFLAGS

If you don't clear raidflags I think the eq goes poof after the raid
expires.

PURCHASING is limited to 8 items.
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NEUTRAL ALIGN: the reason to go neutral is this: clan guards have
protection good and protection evil.  If you are neutral then neither of those
spells reduce the damage you deal.  Thus, you deal more damage to the
clan guards.  Since this is a time sensitive event, all the marginal benefits
we can derive is all the better.
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NEGATIVE REGEN RATES:  Often times clan mazes will have negative regen
rates for mana/moves/hp.  Be forwarned in mazes of these types that you may
run out of moves if you are idling there for some time and when the party
leader wishes to move, you may be stuck in the starting room.  Party heal
casts refresh and party heal is often used.  So party heal will likely
fix this situation most times.  However, should you idle in the room with
negative rates while marking a room, you are not actively casting party heal.
For emergency purposes, try to carry a few refresh potions.  They are located
north of recall currently: Quadreidess potions.

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CLANALLIES ISSUES:
AT WAR - You cannot have AT WAR players in the same raid.  This is true even where
the AT WAR status is not returned.  For example,

Clanallies baal shows -
Imperium     at war   00:00   hostile  00:00      --      -       --

Imperium has NOT returned at war to us and are hostile towards us.
This necessarily means that Baal and Imperium can NEVER raid together
unless or until that AT WAR status is changed.

NEUTRAL - You can never raid a clan that you are neutral status to.
FRIENDLY - You can never raid a clan that you are friendly to.
ALLIED - You can defend and be defended by an ally.
HOSTILE - You can raid and be raided by these clans.

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BRAVERY WISH - clan guards are now able to intim (see notes for intim)
In many situations, you will not be webbing and if you do not have
BRAVERY then you will be susceptable to intimidate via mobs.  Get this
wish.

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NOWEB WISH - clan guards are now able to web.  This will affect navigation
so be very careful so as to check to see if you are webbed before moving.
You do not want to be caught in a guard room by yourself after repop.
Get this wish so as to not worry about being webbed.