Rubbinns wrote on Nov 9
th, 2015 at 3:48pm:
love citw. mostly because that and fot were the raids people did non-stop when I joined. was a really fun time for me, being new and learning it all. and raids were all day everyday. not today's bullshit where I have to find primetime US hours like watching a tv show.
never did titan. although i had flagged for it a few months ago.
CiTW is just a bunch of too many sacks of HP thrown at you. Add in a lame escort component and The Most Boring Raid Boss in the Game who also happens to like to zap SP (always a not fun choice) and then terrible drop rates, especially on the comms. It takes twice as long to run as FoT and offers 1/5th the chance at comms that FoT does. And you need like 50 of them to upgrade one weapon fully.
Let's get back to Lolth. The very first raid in the game (no, not Tempest Spine, the one with actual raid loot, flagging, and a 3 day replay timer) had a non-mobile boss (Velah). Since then our bosses are the Titan, DQ, Reaver, Abbott, Hound, Suulu, Harry, Horoth(and Suulu again), The CAD (assist from Suulu again), The LoB, two Titans(and Toven), Lolth, Truthful One (and Reaver again), Deathwyrm, Two Red Dragons, The Abbott again(with Lady Vol), and Eudoxia. Hell, throw in Sorjek Incanni twice. Once for Tempest Spine and once for SoS (which was originally supposed to be a raid).
Of this group, how many don't move AT ALL? Only two . Velah and Lolth. The Abbott technically never moves, but does teleport around and Toven doesn't really move, but he's not really the boss fight besides a little end DPS on him.
I'll forgive a raid boss that doesn't move in 2006, but not in 2012. It is unoriginal and lame. Further, Lolth is an iconic D&D big bad. To make her that lame and boring is unforgivable. They were coming off of LoB. One of the most dynamic and challenging raid bosses they ever made. And they give us this? Autoattack at her navel and wait? Screw that. It's a bad raid.
EDIT: I get the "raid I started with" thing. For me that was Shroud, Hound, and VoD. We did raid trains of those nightly in 2008 and early 2009. Technically, the first raid I ever ran was VoN, but that was back when people used the hero method and I hated it. The leader would send one person to each of the three bases and dog cuss anyone else who moved from behind the rocks. Then, we would all run in and stand at the safe spot and heal the hero tank who would beat down Velah. Your only job was to cast heals, use scrolls, or wands on the hero until they killed Velah. If you weren't the hero, the raid basically sucked ass in those days. The epic version was way better.