On Xegony, a year ago or so, the Xegony Alliance was formed to allow smaller
and medium sized guilds to do things - like Dragon and Planes Raids that
were previously the domain of only a handful of larger guilds. Needless to
say - as players got to higher levels they would feel forced to leave their
guilds or only do "pickup raids".
Obviously - such an organization requires a calendar - which (along with the
link to the Ezboard forum) can be reached at
http://www.xegonyalliance.com
to schedule the raids. Some conflicts in scheduling had arisen earlier - so
the calendar was opened up to allow private raids to be shown.
This always been extremely controversial. Many people would like to turn
the XA colander into a reservation system as exists on some servers - some
people seeing this as a panacea to solving every problem that has ever
occurred on our server. Others, citing problems on other servers, actual or
hypothetical situations, liken a reservation system to communism (someone
actually posted that on the backstage board).
Regardless - many guilds and the XA Raids themselves of course - use the
calendar was what is described as an "Intention system" - i.e. - we "Intend"
to raid at this time and this location with these people. We can't force
other guilds to respect it; but at the very least - when people who have
signed up appear in a guild raid that started 45 minutes earlier - they
certainly can't claim ignorance.
As far as Vox and Nag; given that Xegony is one of the original servers;
only a minority of players can fight those mobs - so most of the larger and
most powerful guilds don't even bother. There are a couple of newer
guilds - Circle of Valor I believe being one - that has being going after
Vox a lot (and with some difficulty).
I did Nag 3 times and each one was successful. I did Vox twice and failed
both times. The first time because we sent too many people in - and had
major LD problems every time the AOE spell went off. The second time - we
didn't have enough stunners or mana drain - and she CH'd herself when the
health bar was at "a" in "Lady Vox". We then would have succeeded if he had
properly timed the respawns of the IG's but a couple spawned and killed off
the raid.
I would think you won't have problems getting at Vox and Nag - you're
biggest problem will be finding enough people at the level range who are
willing to follow directions properly. You'll probably get mostly new
players who are inexperienced at raiding.
Slyde Katzenjammer
56 Bard of Xegony
Dragons of Kel'Dar