Raid Night

[Poisonenvy]

Tomorrow (Wednesday 3rd December) is the first night we're able to experience the new raid, Highmaul.

It will be our first look, and it WILL involve death and destruction .. for us.

In order to improve our chances, please read up on the fights .. at the very least the first boss .. if we get past him we can take a time out to check out the next.

Currently Icy Veins have some strategy guides up, but they are not necessarily based on LIVE data, so we have to hope they get updated to reflect live before we do the encounter - or at least hope they haven't changed much.

Please ensure you are repaired up before joining the group, if you've been accepted to attend .. that you have potions/flasks/food relevant to your role and class.

I have tried to check, but I also have to assume that everyone who has signed has AT LEAST 615 ilevel gear AND has passed the silver proving ground for their role/character.  Please let me know if this is not the case.

Please ensure that you have Teamspeak installed, set up to join our server and that you are able to use it.  At the very least you should be able to listen to events on Teamspeak .. ideally we'd like you to be able to speak, too, if necessary (ie, "aarrrgh .. get out of that!!" and "eeeek .. watch out for .." ....)

Voice Chat etiquette is that during a boss fight we keep things as quiet as possible .. we will have one or two people shouting out directions if it seems they are needed, but other than that, we try to keep things quiet.  Please do not shout up if you die .. the healers can tell if you're dead.  Battle Rezzes will occur as and when required and are usually reserved for tanks or anyone with a specific role in a fight.

If we need to review tactics, we will discuss it after a fight, not during, unless it seems we have the time or its something easily solved (tank switching, etc).

Ensure that any addons you need are up to date and working .. healing addons, decursive, DBM, etc.

We are playing by ear the number of healers to raid members we need .. I've accepted the number of dps possible based on the number of healers we had available.  We have the potential for possibly one or two more healers, but they are currently on tentative so cannot be relied upon.

Most of all .. enjoy .. go expecting to die many, many times, and bring your own bottle/snacks

[Leeboi2703]

Can I just add to that the new resurrection system and a suggestion for reassure toon rules? The ressurections are not all given at the start of a fight, instead they are slowly granted depending on raid size this means they are quite limited and should only be used on PE direction. A lot of issues were caused at the end of MoP due to hasty ressurections so best not to use them unless you know you should.

[Poisonenvy]

Demoncandy wrote:

The ressurections are not all given at the start of a fight, instead they are slowly granted depending on raid size this means they are quite limited and should only be used on PE direction. A lot of issues were caused at the end of MoP due to hasty ressurections so best not to use them unless you know you should.

 Do we know the exact nature of the rules?

And to be fair .. the "hasty resurrections" at the end of MoP were generally due to the fact that we were running flex, overgeared, boosting lower geared characters through, and it really didn't impact much in the great scheme of things.  A lot of rules and "how we normally did things" got relaxed during that period in order to get as many people through as wanted to go, in a short period of time.  We also had a lot of people along who were not guild members .. they were either "friends" of guild members, or members of Samsara (and their friends).

As I stated in my original post, battle rezzes are generally reserved for tanks.  Sometimes healers depending on how desperately we need them alive .. usually if a tank dies I'll immediately ask for a battle rez for him (or her) so it should be obvious. 

Demoncandy wrote:

... and a suggestion for reassure toon rules?

Not sure what you mean by this.

If you're talking about taking alts .. then I have no problem with that.  As long as the alts are geared and prepared for the relevant fights, and we have all the roles covered, then anyone can take any character.  Just let me know ahead of time .. and as numbers are potentially much larger now, ideally sign up with your preferred character.

Saying that, we do expect all raid members to be a member of the guild too .. so apart from under dire circumstances, all characters in the raid group must also be a guild member.

It is worth checking out the loot available as well, ahead of time .. as there is some stat sharing going on now.  You can also now no longer classify all non-spirit intellect gear as dps gear, for example, because it seems that spirit is only available on non-armour items (trinkets, rings, etc).  If loot drops, we may have to take extra time to check who is best suited, so please bear with us :-)