BTW... 2 days at 85 and avg ilvl is 359... fun stuff.. granted, thats 65K later, but JP and VP gear, its doable to a simalar degree with out much more time... Dont run heroic if your grinding JP for gear... to slow and too many tards... healers tanks and dps can all be stupid and you still get through normal dungeons fast...
This is more a post of me thinking through a current situation...
Consistently server top 25 guild, and as high as 5 that I know of. The main group that is.
There used to be 2 other groups going, one leader seems to have quit the game, a second quit the guild in a drama fest and took about 10 casual raiders, and 5 more regulars with them. prolly more.
The fallout... In the same week, a more guild established player and myself both must have said something like, "Time to step up and field group 2." They took the main raid lead and lead/organized raids... when they were around, and managed 1-5 (not counting BH) bosses a week.. usually 2, and those runs were wipe fests and though I like to raid, I found myself walking away dissappointed in the evening. Raid time is 8:30, and often after pugging would start after 9 and then a 11 stop time was pretty consistent... so about 90 minutes or so of actual pulls for about 2 kills.. pretty dismal. Fine if you are starting out... and learning raiding, and completely casual, not so much if your not a baddie, you want to be more than casual, but less than 4 nights 4 hours hard core...
Now... I will not raid with that raid leader... Tues they wanted to go back to BWD/BOT, and knew nothing about the FL encounters... As I said, I was not going to BoT/BWD, I lead the raid, and went for beth'tilac. It was good experience for many, but overall, a wipefest, no progress, we never got over half way through phase 1. A bit low on dps, but REALLY low on SA (situational awareness) and reaction times. There was a mage that said they could not see spiderlings till they were half way to us. Thats a lot of lost DPS time, and lot of time traveling with no slow on them.. and overall, just poor. Above us the tank and healer were struggling to get the movement and mechanics right and watch the energy to jump down.
Now, I am working at forming a new group, a second raid team that will just be serious at the raid times... and invest some hour or three per week looking over videos/spec/gear/rotations/priorities and other general info to be a valid contributer in the raid. Be on time, and be ready for the encounter...
I have lead casual raiders, it was a major pain and a major drain to have to call all interupts, dispells, moves, CDs and other stuff, review poor performance, and train peeps on specs, gear, gems, enchants, and often buy/give away stuff to get them more ready, only to have them be unsatisfied over all that they were now better than they were and dont want to be with the scrubs... viscous cycle of the revolving door group... GAHHH.. not doing that. The standards set will be held to or we will not raid... Not interested in pugging either, I will for one or 2, but not sure where I will set my standards on that... Tank Pugs can be really rough, healer pugs can be rough, and dps.. all over the field... it is my intent to build a raid team with reasonably consistent rotation of raiders... I imagine a running roster of 3-5 tanks 4-7 healers and about 4-5 pure dps. rather that comes with dual spec or second toons... all good, about 12-15 players that just want to go kill stuff, they are not raiding for gear... but for kill and there is one of the worst problems in raids. People only want the gear, not the kills, priorities are jacked.. the cart is in front of the horse.. they want delivery before payment...
Ehh, I am done.. have a great weekend
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
What does a a half million gold do...
First off getting there... You learn a repeatable process that if you ever need gold you can go make more faster than most players...
BUT... Today, the topic is the druid that hit 85 yesterday. Often short tanks and heavy on priests in the guild, I started pushing my druid up as feral. yesterday was the great ding, 85. In a matter of a couple hours, I was random queing ZA/ZG w/ some guildies, and doing 10K dps, as well as doing 16k dps in a BH run on the new boss (25man), grinding regular heroics for JP got me the T11 pants, 60K in gold got me the 42k BOE 378 ilvl pole arm, 15K got me the new BOE, valor bracers, and a few more pieces off the AH all gemed and chanted ready to go raiding... same day I hit 85. The 16k in BH was using mangle instead of shred and having been a long time out of playing melee in raids/groups. As well as being new to the rotations to keep up. It just does not apply when questing, and I am also tanking mostly in instances. Things die to quick to get a real kitty feral rotation going. My spec is also not pure Kitty, I am running a hybrid tank spec to do decent dps as feral, but mostly to tank. So, new boss in BH, same day I hit 85, #13 on dps at 16K... not bad in my book. Still lots of pracice to really do well. On my roge where I learned melee dps in raiding, I ran combat, never had to worry about the positioning requirement. Shred.. that does require positioning... its new and harder, and I LIKE IT...
So, I had a half mill, now I dont, only like 480K or something... I have the low end therazane chants for shoulders, the tanking helm glyph from earthen ring, and have been clearing up in Hyjal to complete the quest line and get into the dailies with the avengers, for the purchasable 365 neck, and looking for rep runs in FL for a new belt and cloak... In a couple days, I expect to also have the 378 cloak and belt with Avenger's of Hyjal rep.
So.. a Half mill.. go nuts... I still play to raid, and a decent tank that is consistent is hard to come by sometimes... OKAY.. almost all the time. 65K spent on gems, enchants, and stuff and I hit ilvl 352 w/in hours of lvl 85... Oh.. and I went broke on that toon.. so I sent hime a 50K Operational Continuation Fund. RAWRRRR.. next will be gearing up the resto set...
Fun fun... :-)
BUT... Today, the topic is the druid that hit 85 yesterday. Often short tanks and heavy on priests in the guild, I started pushing my druid up as feral. yesterday was the great ding, 85. In a matter of a couple hours, I was random queing ZA/ZG w/ some guildies, and doing 10K dps, as well as doing 16k dps in a BH run on the new boss (25man), grinding regular heroics for JP got me the T11 pants, 60K in gold got me the 42k BOE 378 ilvl pole arm, 15K got me the new BOE, valor bracers, and a few more pieces off the AH all gemed and chanted ready to go raiding... same day I hit 85. The 16k in BH was using mangle instead of shred and having been a long time out of playing melee in raids/groups. As well as being new to the rotations to keep up. It just does not apply when questing, and I am also tanking mostly in instances. Things die to quick to get a real kitty feral rotation going. My spec is also not pure Kitty, I am running a hybrid tank spec to do decent dps as feral, but mostly to tank. So, new boss in BH, same day I hit 85, #13 on dps at 16K... not bad in my book. Still lots of pracice to really do well. On my roge where I learned melee dps in raiding, I ran combat, never had to worry about the positioning requirement. Shred.. that does require positioning... its new and harder, and I LIKE IT...
So, I had a half mill, now I dont, only like 480K or something... I have the low end therazane chants for shoulders, the tanking helm glyph from earthen ring, and have been clearing up in Hyjal to complete the quest line and get into the dailies with the avengers, for the purchasable 365 neck, and looking for rep runs in FL for a new belt and cloak... In a couple days, I expect to also have the 378 cloak and belt with Avenger's of Hyjal rep.
So.. a Half mill.. go nuts... I still play to raid, and a decent tank that is consistent is hard to come by sometimes... OKAY.. almost all the time. 65K spent on gems, enchants, and stuff and I hit ilvl 352 w/in hours of lvl 85... Oh.. and I went broke on that toon.. so I sent hime a 50K Operational Continuation Fund. RAWRRRR.. next will be gearing up the resto set...
Fun fun... :-)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Where is your guild at, and where are you on progression
Gold in the game removes the stress to have the gear enhancements and consumables to go... that was the project... Play what I want to play at and not care about the rest... The guild my raiding main is in... We believe got a server first beth'ilac (spelling) kill.. they were server #5, and they are talking about how they fell to #14... Not bad.. I am not in the raiding grou, have not killed anything on H mode, or even cleared the T11 raid zones. Its time to regroup and change things up with group 2... just too casual... and the expectations are low and so then is attendance and performance. Still having fun at it..
The only thing that bites is old habits... I still can not take my 84.3 druid, almost 85... and easily pass the mining nodes that I see.. I can not make myself turn off "tracking" for mining, or even vendor stuff in my bags.. it goes to an alt sits in the mail, and then gets mass posted when I drag myself over to that toon and spend an hour cleaning and organizing... I still have stupid stocks of stupid stuff in G-banks, banks, bags and mailboxes... But I may find I desire to have some fun with the JC market and go for more gold as the druid is feral tank spec atm, but the nice thing about feral tank, is you still have pleanty of tools to do very respectable DPS by just going cat form. Plan him to be a raiding feral dps/pinch OT, and when the gear is in place I will prolly get a resto spec going... I should get into the Hyjal dailies soon and get going for that gear, and get enough soon enough to get out and gear up.. since Justice will now buy a lot of gear, dungeon for rep and JP gear... good too go. Fast and easy... into firelands trash runs for the rep gear there will be nice. I will get a toon into see cho or Nef soon enough.. will be fun.. and its soooo nerfed now... totally puggable if you have a decent raid leader that knows whats going on.
On gold habits.. having done it once... no need to make a mad push to get more gold... its all just for fun now, but I have developed the skill set and addon usage to repeat the process again and again. So I may dable at the JC jumble, I have a xmut alchy, I have an enchanter, and now I have a JC... just not sure how much I really want to get into all that.. playing an hour or so daily in the AH game was draining... I could never go to Org and not run an AH cancel/post it seemed... I was always flipping the auctions... later I quit that and still made respectable sales, just a bit less, the I quit at that game and decided a tank is my goal... Almost there and owning all the non heroics against the most idiotic and stupd DPS... LFD DPS is terribad.. I rareley have a group where one of them does not pull agro for failure to target my target.. then what do they do... RUN AWAY... AND... KEEP DPS GOING... I taunt it back sometimes.. and before it gets to me... they have agro back.. I let them have it... I just quit taunting... I mark a target.. they DPS another... Something twiches.. and they open up with AOE.. no allowance to let me get agro or position mobs.. just LOAD UP the recount meter... Gahhh, terribads... Or just plain rude, I can tell by the performance of many of them that they know how to play well and are likely raiders... They are just cocky and have unrealistic expectations that it is my job to save their ass... Nope... dont pull agro, and let me get agro... target my target too... Oh well its still fun and I need to get in and get the rep for therazane and Uldum and Earthen ring, stam agi head chants and shoulder enhancements...
Side not... I did a couple dungeons, and the quest to go with them, but wow... 45% xp bonus... i was 83 before I cleared Vaj'ir... (need the stam/dodge head glyph) Not sure if deepholm will get me to 85 or not... but shoulder chants there.. then to Uldum for more questing... Agi/Haste chant, then off to Hyjal for the quest lines to the new content... and the healing head glyph... OHHH.. glad I was thinking on that... I guess I need to prioritze Hyjal up the list... gota run the quest line to get into the dailies sooner than later... I guess it will be clear Deepholm then to Hyjal... then to uldum...
Hope you had a happy fourth of July if you celebrated te 235th anniversary of the USA...
The only thing that bites is old habits... I still can not take my 84.3 druid, almost 85... and easily pass the mining nodes that I see.. I can not make myself turn off "tracking" for mining, or even vendor stuff in my bags.. it goes to an alt sits in the mail, and then gets mass posted when I drag myself over to that toon and spend an hour cleaning and organizing... I still have stupid stocks of stupid stuff in G-banks, banks, bags and mailboxes... But I may find I desire to have some fun with the JC market and go for more gold as the druid is feral tank spec atm, but the nice thing about feral tank, is you still have pleanty of tools to do very respectable DPS by just going cat form. Plan him to be a raiding feral dps/pinch OT, and when the gear is in place I will prolly get a resto spec going... I should get into the Hyjal dailies soon and get going for that gear, and get enough soon enough to get out and gear up.. since Justice will now buy a lot of gear, dungeon for rep and JP gear... good too go. Fast and easy... into firelands trash runs for the rep gear there will be nice. I will get a toon into see cho or Nef soon enough.. will be fun.. and its soooo nerfed now... totally puggable if you have a decent raid leader that knows whats going on.
On gold habits.. having done it once... no need to make a mad push to get more gold... its all just for fun now, but I have developed the skill set and addon usage to repeat the process again and again. So I may dable at the JC jumble, I have a xmut alchy, I have an enchanter, and now I have a JC... just not sure how much I really want to get into all that.. playing an hour or so daily in the AH game was draining... I could never go to Org and not run an AH cancel/post it seemed... I was always flipping the auctions... later I quit that and still made respectable sales, just a bit less, the I quit at that game and decided a tank is my goal... Almost there and owning all the non heroics against the most idiotic and stupd DPS... LFD DPS is terribad.. I rareley have a group where one of them does not pull agro for failure to target my target.. then what do they do... RUN AWAY... AND... KEEP DPS GOING... I taunt it back sometimes.. and before it gets to me... they have agro back.. I let them have it... I just quit taunting... I mark a target.. they DPS another... Something twiches.. and they open up with AOE.. no allowance to let me get agro or position mobs.. just LOAD UP the recount meter... Gahhh, terribads... Or just plain rude, I can tell by the performance of many of them that they know how to play well and are likely raiders... They are just cocky and have unrealistic expectations that it is my job to save their ass... Nope... dont pull agro, and let me get agro... target my target too... Oh well its still fun and I need to get in and get the rep for therazane and Uldum and Earthen ring, stam agi head chants and shoulder enhancements...
Side not... I did a couple dungeons, and the quest to go with them, but wow... 45% xp bonus... i was 83 before I cleared Vaj'ir... (need the stam/dodge head glyph) Not sure if deepholm will get me to 85 or not... but shoulder chants there.. then to Uldum for more questing... Agi/Haste chant, then off to Hyjal for the quest lines to the new content... and the healing head glyph... OHHH.. glad I was thinking on that... I guess I need to prioritze Hyjal up the list... gota run the quest line to get into the dailies sooner than later... I guess it will be clear Deepholm then to Hyjal... then to uldum...
Hope you had a happy fourth of July if you celebrated te 235th anniversary of the USA...
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