How To Get into the Raid Scene?

[TSLsmokey]

Well I haven't found one like that myself, but depending on what part you're in right now(either level 50 raiding or level 60) there's always a couple things to do. For the level 50 raiding, a good idea would be to get poetics armor asap if you haven't reached the heavensward areas yet and haven't gotten to 56 or higher. It's somewhat amusing that ironworks gear outranks a good chunk of HW gear. The coils are also highly recommended to go in the party finder or with friends instead of doing them through DF and good luck getting in the crystal tower as well. I don't have a plan for you for HW raiding though unfortunately.

EDIT: After thinking it through there is a couple things to do in heavensward raiding right off the bat to get you prepared after you reach 60. First, you'll want to get the esosterics gear. You likely won't reach 60 fast enough before the law tomes are no longer obtainable so focus on esosterics and the lore tomes at that point. The lore gear will likely outrank the esosterics but it'll also likely be capped to a certain about of lore tomes per week. Go through the level 60 dungeons as well to get the tomestones from there as well as gear(while the esos gear outranks the current dungeon gear and is upgradeable, you still can get some nice pocket change from selling the dungeon gear). Also make sure to do the Alexander Gordias normal, you should only require a guide for a4. a3 is useful with one but it's not needed. And also the Void Ark. When you're ready to do Thordan's Reign, Bismarck EX, and Ravana EX, you should be well prepared... actually over prepared in the latter 2 cases. With Alexander Midas on the horizon, this should also help you prep for that as well as Gordias Savage should you plan on doing that. Be warned that the savage raids allow no mistakes. You mess up in your rotations or get nailed by an aoe, the entire raid could potentially wipe. They are strict... very strict. Kinda why I haven't even done them yet.

Good luck out there!

[Istus]

Thx TSLsmokey! your in depth advice will hopefully get me on the right track! Good luck to both of us then!