This is some honest feedback, that will probably get me flamed, but here goes...
I know these raids are happing randomly, and was not suprised to port to mahagra as a low level spiritist, and die on the pad. No prob. So I decide to try and take part in this "event".
I switch to scout quickly, and port to bristugo, to about a 4 minute port. Once I could actually move, fps was around 1. Well, this aint gonna work so I port to aug to try there... Much better fps 4.2. I see PJ fighting some treants and start attacking. I do a bit of damage, the treants rush forward, my fps drops to .3 and I cant even heal myself or move backwards. Deathpoint #2. So at this point I realize that things are WORSE now than ever before.
Now before the regulars chime in and say they have NO problems, let me say that what concerns me is that too many times enough say that its not all that bad and NOTHING changes.
The lag makes the "fun" more frustrating than its worth. I really wonder why TG does this close to towns in the first place. It only add to the lag that is already there. And to raid bristugo, with mobs that have spell effects sparkling around them, moving all around makes this worthless to almost all players except a small fraction of the player base. Something that will NOT add to good word of mouth.
I can normally fight out on saritova with 15 mobs and still have 20+ fps the entire time. I have 1 gig of memory and 256 mb video card. No shadows, and everything else set as good as I can. I am on a cable connections that has 3mb dl speeds and 1mb up.
Until something improves, I will not bother with this "fun" addition to the game.