08-02-2011, 09:30 PM
So I thought I would take a little time out of my evening to make a few comments on ways that people who are joining our raid can look to excel at their role. With our raid moving into the firelands, we are finding quite a jump in the level of co-ordination taken to conquer bosses and make progress. Here are some thoughts to help out.
1) Watch the videos. I can't stress enough how useful it is to know what your getting into before you do it. Every time Jaba has to explain a raid scenario we lose a good deal of time. Know your fights, especially for fights we have already conquered its best to know your role and fit in as smoothly as possible. Looking at fights we havn't done yet lets you be a contributor instead of a liability when it comes to conquering them. Do it, its in your best interest.
2) Molten front Blacksmithing. People, we have equipment out there now that is an improvement over our current weapons by leaps and bounds. But how many of us have taken advantage of this? We need blacksmiths to start hoarding orbs and gaining molten faction. These are upgrades for the entire raid but they take a lot of work and dedication to earn. I have orbs for Guns, I can make the new scopes for people with a few key materials. Great for one or two people, but blacksmiths are invaluable right now to increasing raid dps. Help them get orbs, help them run dailys for faction. I myself am sitting on the materials to make a new spell blade, I just need the smith with the orbs and recipe to do it.
3) Askmrrobot.com. Check it out, optimize your gear with its suggestions. I implore you to look and see if it makes a difference. I know it has for me, I know it has for a few others who are getting more out of their gear than they ever did mixing and matching on their own. We have several good and generous gem crafters in the guild who can help you fill in those slots and our enchants are stockpiling mats just so we can keep on top of that demand as well.
4) Elitistjerks.com. Don't let the name fool you, this is a very well thought out class by class forum regarding how best to rotate your abilities, glyph yourself and hints and tricks for better use of abilities in several boss fights. I know I profited when I started using the destruction spell rotation from the guide I found there. I also picked up a mod that helps show me what I optimally can cast next...it does WONDERS for my dps in raids and keeps me fairly near the top all the time.
5) Deadlyboss mods. Or its equivalent. This is simply a must have. It helps you know what to do in fights and when to expect bad things to happen. Have it, no excuses, this at least is a requirement for anyone who really wants to raid.
Please feel free to post other tidbits here. Lets get psyched up for success out there and taking down our first boss.
Craig - Damoxian's more civil counterpart.
1) Watch the videos. I can't stress enough how useful it is to know what your getting into before you do it. Every time Jaba has to explain a raid scenario we lose a good deal of time. Know your fights, especially for fights we have already conquered its best to know your role and fit in as smoothly as possible. Looking at fights we havn't done yet lets you be a contributor instead of a liability when it comes to conquering them. Do it, its in your best interest.
2) Molten front Blacksmithing. People, we have equipment out there now that is an improvement over our current weapons by leaps and bounds. But how many of us have taken advantage of this? We need blacksmiths to start hoarding orbs and gaining molten faction. These are upgrades for the entire raid but they take a lot of work and dedication to earn. I have orbs for Guns, I can make the new scopes for people with a few key materials. Great for one or two people, but blacksmiths are invaluable right now to increasing raid dps. Help them get orbs, help them run dailys for faction. I myself am sitting on the materials to make a new spell blade, I just need the smith with the orbs and recipe to do it.
3) Askmrrobot.com. Check it out, optimize your gear with its suggestions. I implore you to look and see if it makes a difference. I know it has for me, I know it has for a few others who are getting more out of their gear than they ever did mixing and matching on their own. We have several good and generous gem crafters in the guild who can help you fill in those slots and our enchants are stockpiling mats just so we can keep on top of that demand as well.
4) Elitistjerks.com. Don't let the name fool you, this is a very well thought out class by class forum regarding how best to rotate your abilities, glyph yourself and hints and tricks for better use of abilities in several boss fights. I know I profited when I started using the destruction spell rotation from the guide I found there. I also picked up a mod that helps show me what I optimally can cast next...it does WONDERS for my dps in raids and keeps me fairly near the top all the time.
5) Deadlyboss mods. Or its equivalent. This is simply a must have. It helps you know what to do in fights and when to expect bad things to happen. Have it, no excuses, this at least is a requirement for anyone who really wants to raid.
Please feel free to post other tidbits here. Lets get psyched up for success out there and taking down our first boss.
Craig - Damoxian's more civil counterpart.