I just got out of my first 'proper' Karazhan run. I started at the beginning, healing from the first pull to the last wipe. I've got
three four five things to say.
1) I love you, you're wonderful, but please, when you accidentally pull Maiden, and we all have to rush in, and you ask me to Battle Rez you while I'm frantically stacking Lifebloom on the newbie tank, please please PLEASE ping the minimap with your location. Saying, "I'm off in so-and-so direction" does me NOTHING. I don't have the time to wander around trying to find your broken and beaten body.
2) Please keep the raid chatter to a minimum. It's fine to occasionally crack a joke, and if we didn't, we wouldn't be the guild that we are. But if you can't sit down and focus when we need to clear through the two guards that mysteriously respawned when we wiped, I'm not entirely sure we should be bringing you along, even though your dps HAS shot through the roof since you got the epic bow from Prince.
2.5) While we're talking about dps, please keep your dps under control. Especially if your Omen isn't working right and you haven't fixed it yet. You just got a major weapon upgrade and we're using a newbie tank. He can't handle agro bombs like our usual tank can. Keep it up and you won't get any heals from me at all. I don't have the mana to waste on your foolishness, even if I do have insane regen as a druid.
3) Every little bit helps. Especially when you're talking about your gear. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: try to get every little bit of upgrade you can. Yes, that means going to WoWhead, doing an item search, and filtering for what you need. Then go out and get it. I've known just about everywhere I need to go for a while now. I have issues getting there, but I darn well know what I need from where, and I'm working towards it. Every little bit counts. I proved that in my last post.
4) Please repair before the run. It's something of a pain when you need to go back and clear the repair guy area because half the raiders present forgot to repair before the run. Yes, that's your responsibility as a raider. I made sure to repair. I checked thrice, just to make sure. As a result, after about 7 wipes, I was only then starting to turn yellow and white. It makes a difference. Repair. Your. Gear.
5) Make sure you have a large number of buffing reagents. I never encountered this one until tonight. I've read elsewhere that members are required to bring at least 40 buffing reagents to each run, and it threw me for a loop. I couldn't understand how in the world you could need two full stacks of buffing mats within a single night of raiding. Now I do. After the aforementioned wipes (as well as two or three times as time wore on), my single stack of Wild Quillvine was almost completely gone. I'm going to have to spend something like 6g before my next run to make sure I have enough.
Yes, I know I said there were only five, and I'm already at 6, but here's a final one:
When you accept the position of raider, you're accepting, whether implicitly or explicitly, the responsibility to get consumables, and be willing to use them. Whether you farm the mats themself and cook your own food/make your own pots/whatever, or whether you just farm gold and buy out the auction house night of, you need to have lots and lots of consumables. Unless you're using a flask, you have at least two buffs that disappear when you die (and trust me, you WILL die repeatedly on anything not on farm status).
You need to darn well make sure you carry around a crapload of consumables. Period. Take out a loan if need be. Or sit out a week(unless the raid absolutely needs you, then strike some sort of deal with the guild bank to get what you need). That last isn't as bad as it sounds. Yes, you might miss the chance to get a really nifty item. But your chances of getting that item, and everyone else's chances of getting whatever THEY want, drop significantly if you aren't giving the absolute best you can.
Hopefully these tips will help someone else from having to utter those embarrassing words in /raid, "Guys, my gear just went red. Can I get a port and a summon?"
Comments (1)
This is just too funny! I came over here to thank you for the shiny lifebloom macro, and we both posted something very similar.
Mine is a general etiquette/expectations post but we both hit some of the same points, which means that great minds do think alike :)
Anywho, thanks awfully for the macro (I'll have husband help me-he does the coding stuff).