Can anyone tell me if you will be able to use cross realm players to do CURRENT raiding? So…would I be able to grab those 1-2 players and go pop into or is this strictly for content behind current tier raiding?

Have a few runs throught openraid. Really brulliabt idea!!

Asshats are everywhere. But like prev comment said. The reputation and comment system does its job very well.

You can also start a raid for friend only. The raid is not public for everyone. Und only those with the link to it, can see it.

Wiithout doubt. Openraid will make such raid much much easier to organize.

If you are using there vent server. Add the openraid link of your raid to your username. Because some mods may start kicking everyone. :)

Generally very friendly and there was no trolling. The rating system tends to weed out the asshats.

So — keep me posted! #12 Dewberry Lane, Elwynn Forest, Whisperwind -lol!

Early in the morning for me and I’ve not had coffee yet, being coherent will be challenging.

The raid I went on had many people who’d been doing openraid’s with each other in the past so there was a lot of joking and camaraderie. And I’ve seen runs advertised that were doing EoE and OS3D both for mounts – I don’t think you’re restricted in what you can do with your raid once it forms. And you can put multiple raids in the description for your run.

Some of the advantages I can think of for you resonate with what you’re already thinking and my thoughts are:

1) Easy to track who signed up, the role they signed up for. Its easy for everyone else to see the current status too without you having to send people emails every time things change.

2) You’re connected on Battletags so it should be easy enough for someone to swap to an alt. I have a feeling that openraid encourages sticking to the character you signed up on since you get ratings per toon and your completed raids are tracked on a per toon level. This isn’t a deal breaker for raids like yours where everyone pretty much knows each other outside of openraid but is still something to keep in mind.

3) People also get to rate each other after a raid, so you and people doing your runs would have the added bonus of building some solid rep on openraid.us for when anyone wants to pug something via openraid.

4) You’re the final arbiter of who gets to come. So you can use openraid to get all your friends in first then pug the slots that are left over. A lot of people seem to sign up in the last few hours before a raid so if you’re seeing low signups leading up to the raid, don’t despair, you will still get some more people near raid time.

5) You could meet some cool new people. I’ve been on just one openraid and I already have two battletag friends from that run. You get to run with someone in a group situation for a couple hours and you get a pretty good idea of the kind of person they are. For me thats a definite plus.

One thing openraid doesn’t do automatically is tell someone if they’ve been bumped down from “confirmed” status via email. They have to check the openraid page to see if their status changed. That said, if you bump someone down you can always just email them yourself.

I think openraid would help streamline things for you and make your Sunday runs simpler for all involved. Can’t really see a downside, if you find one, you can easily go back to how you’re doing things now!