EDIT: Our HC raid team is mostly full, but we’ve still got a couple of healing slots open - would love to hear from you!
Who are we?
We are Vapid Encrypted, a cross-faction, late-night, 2-hours-a-week HC raiding community that tackles HC raids on Wednesdays, 2130-2330 server time. Season 4 of SL was our first season as a team – we fully cleared Fated HC Nathria, and made some great progress on the other Fated HC raids as well.
Many of the our members come from the social guild The Vapid Ciphers on Argent Dawn EU – community members will also have access to the guild’s M+ and Normal Mode raid nights.
Only 2 hours? Why?
Because we have jobs. Or kids. Or alts. Or Netflix series to binge. Basically, we want to experience the game at higher levels, but not have to dedicate a big chunk of our free time to do so.
Who can join the raid?
Our aim is to put together a dedicated raid team of 20 people who can make most of our Wednesday night sessions. With our current numbers, we are already raid-ready, but want to bulk the team with some more dps and healers.
Like so many teams out there, we’re recruiting for Dragonflight. The recruitment boss was our biggest enemy in Season 4, so we’re excited to see what we can do at the start of a new expansion.
Our goals are AOTC for every Dragonflight raid, and we also hope to dip our toes into a few Mythic fights towards the end of each season.
We currently have no prior experience requirements, and of course we have no current loot requirements for joining our runs. We also aren’t/won’t be demanding any specific specs or talent tree load outs – we’re more interested in dedicated players than people who follow the meta perfectly.
We do, however, need people who are willing to commit to the following:
- You can attend the majority of our Wed night runs. We also expect raiders to be ready to pull at 2130, and to be able to stay for the entire 2 hours.
- Come to the raid prepared – consumables ready, fully repaired etc.
- Be an active participant in our Discord tactics discussions. With only 2 hours a week, we want to spend most of that time pulling – we’ll be talking through boss tactics in the week before the raid, using Discord so people can dip in and out of the chat when suits them. This will include watching videos, reading guides, using Raidplan, and getting Method Raid Tools set up for the fights.
- You will be willing to gear yourself through other means. With only 2 hours of raiding a week, our raids are NOT going to be a great source of gear. You probably already run M+ to get a slow trickle of gear upgrades. (We’d love to run some with you!)
- Want to have fun in the game, and don’t mind the (many) wipes that come with raid progress. The main aim here is to have fun through progression – swearing and screaming at people tends to kill the ‘fun’ element. We stand by Blizzard’s Social Contract – if there’s anything in there you don’t agree with, you won’t be a good fit for this community.
- You’ve got to be aged 25 or older. The guild this raiding community is linked to was formed back in 2007 with that core rule – so us old farts had like-minded people to game with – and it’s a rule that served us well so far. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Find us by DMing me on Discord: BenedictPaddy#1364