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As for rewards, according to Statesman's original description (I'll keep spoilers to a minimum) the defeat of the Hamidon occurs in a way that should allow all members of the raid force to have an opportunity to pick up at least one reward and possibly multiples. The rewards themselves will be highly desirable.
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The rewards are SO enhancements with 2 effects on them. So you might find a damage/accuracy or a slow/charge rate, etc.
The way that you get these is by killing the blobs that Hamidon expels after it is defeated. They drop from each of these killed and round robin through the group as normal. If you have more than one group then be sure to have your blasters spread amongst them so that not all the blobs are taken by one group or another.
They'd like to simply give everyone one of these enhancements after a Hammy kill, but this is not to be. Expect fights to arise when a blaster gets smart and finds a way to kill all the blobs on his own, or drops from group and grabs all that he can for hisself right after the battle is over. (Not to mention having reaped the benefits of the group through sharing a tank healers and controllers, but then getting the mad xp that comes with doing the sick damage that blasters do).
So this is going to be a mess, and players will demand changes. But it is a mess that we won't run into for about another 3 weeks when the number of level 38+ is more like 30% of the player base instead of 5%.
Right now all those level 38's are everyone's friends, so you probably won't have any losers that do these things. . . Then again, you might.
Also, Hamidon is supposed to be uber now. He was a chump in beta, but I think they wanted to test slow down for players caused by Hammy's effects and stuff. The idea is that it should take 75 players to beat him. My guess is that it will take the powergamers more like 24.
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Was there. Was more in the 70 to 80 characters range. The first "regroup and try again" bit after most folks ended up going to the Hospital in FF and coming back and getting teleported resulted in unknowingly (a lot of us were going "Where the hell is Phantom!? I can't see him to target him to assist and focus my damage through him! Who has him targetted?!") splitting the assault force into two clusters on almost directly opposite sides of the Hamidon.
Once we all regrouped into one area and gave it another healthy go, I think we figured out a tactic that's at least worth a good shot at taking it down. It was clear to see that too many people there didn't have much raid/epic event experience from other games, though, as it was a huge freaking disorganized mess with too little coordination. I felt for Grey.
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Preparing and Organizing
Hamidon from afar
