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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) celticmyst08 | |
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I'm an officer and founding member of a guild...it's a few months old and we've been doing really well. One of the officer's friends server transferred here to help us get going. He's a really geared shaman who was in one of the top 50 U.S. guilds (but left because he was sick of drama and bad attitudes), so it was really cool that he came to our guild. He led out in raids and knew the strategies like the back of his hand. At first it was great, we were downing bosses and progressing really well. We had an awesome progression 10man group that I was part of that worked on hard modes, togc, and was planning on going into Icecrown. But recently, he's been bringing his friends in from his old server and slowly our core team is getting replaced by them. Our death knight tank was replaced with a warrior, our hunter GM is often replaced by another hunter (and when she *is* invited she feels like it's only because she's the GM), our mage was replaced, etc. Tonight we did the weekly raid quest and were all excited about going to ICC. We dropped group after Ignis and he said he was going to reform the raid for Icecrown. When I wasn't invited back, I whispered the GM asking what was up. She said there was another resto druid in the raid and she didn't know who he was. I looked at the guild roster and apparently he joined a couple days ago. He is slightly more geared than me, but not by much. And guess what? He's a friend of this shaman. I was really upset. I know it's not a huge deal, but I've been part of this guild since the beginning and we had an awesome raid team. I don't know why he felt like he needed to bring in his friends and replace people. I'm uncomfortable talking to him about how I feel, though, because he hates it when people QQ about not getting invited to raids. What should I do? I basically just lost my raid spot for no good reason, and I'm not sure what to do about it. Tags: advise/advice, drama, guild
Current Mood:  crushed
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hey ladies, i've recently respec'd my priest holy to try and get used the spec for end game raiding. shes only 77, but i want to start practicing in 5 mans. i've played a disc priest in arenas before so i'm really comfortable with that that style of play, but holy is entirely new to me. i did my first 5man today and it was awful, totally my fault :[ can i get some pointers? i bubbled and g healed the tank, but he still died *plus i was too flustered to even guardian spirit him* while the rest of the group was taking on many damages too. it was the first pull of gundrak, the 3 snakes, and our shaman didn't put down cleansing. yeah i really need some tips. i hate asking for a "rotation" cause i know there isnt one, its pretty much just priority... i really miss penance :[ thanks! -EDIT- Thank you everyone SOOOO much for all the info!!! ^_^ Tags: 5 mans, healing, priest, pve
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unbrokenwings | |
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So I know there's a master post about 3.3 however, I think this doesn't only apply to the new raid even though I'm using the new raid as my example, so I thought I'd post it here. Besides, I think this could be a really interesting discussion, and I really want to hear your thoughts, before I make my final judgement call.
So yesterday, I hand picked a team of ten, my main goal was to get my Main Tank, one of my Off Tanks, and my four best healers in there, and learn the basis of the fights as our 25 man raid on ICC is on Friday. Obviously not all of the healers could heal, so we had one come on a DPS alt. We rolled our way onto the first boss, giggling like school children, happy to have our trash back. (Who knew we'd miss trash pulls!) Those who didn't get picked to go were told they were allowed to hang out on vent, since I'd be talking boss strats anyhow, as long as they were quiet.
As some of you know, the first two bosses have a few odd threat things going on. The first one does a cleave on his target that is split to the nearest raid member of the target. Hopefully, that's the tank and off tank who are stacked on top of each other. Unfortunately, at one point that wound up being our DPS warrior and Holy Pally. Also, getting aggro back on the first boss after he does a certain ability takes a moment too. The second boss puts a debuff on the tanks that reduces their threat, so the tanks have to go back and forth, but the tanks also have to build up threat to take the boss back from the other tank. If a DPS winds up higher on threat then both tanks during this process they're toast.
Of course Omen came up during the raid because of the large discussion on vent about threat, and one of the listening DPS (a ret paladin who is a constant aggro whore) said in guild chat that they never use omen, because it's the tank's job to watch -their- threat. And that the in game system telling him he's at 90% threat so he should back off is enough to keep him alive. (Only, it hasn't been.) If he's dying because of aggro, it's the tanks faults for sucking, not his. He then went on to say that I am crazy to expect him to install Omen before he's allowed on any guild raid again, because he's played this way since he starting playing wow.
With the new fights I truly think that going off of "I'm at 90% according to blizzard, I should stop" isn't enough when one of the tanks might be at 89% and you being at 90% can cause yourself and a healer to get one shot. I truly think that being able to see where you are at in comparison to the other DPS and tank is important. Hell, another DPS could unfortunately be the person at 100% and they could feign and you'd be the person taking the cleave on the first boss!
Now said DPSer is complaining that I'm making him install it and prove that he has it installed (He's the type to lie about these sort of things.) before he's allowed to come any raids. Another DPS or two who were online were kicking and grumbling about the fact that I am telling people they have to have it.
So I'm wondering, am I crazy to expect this? Saying, you download a lightweight addon or you don't raid until you do? Most people in the guild say no, because top raiding guilds on our server have whole lists of things you need to have installed. I'm asking for a pretty light weight addon.
Also, is it only the tanks job to keep an eye on aggro? If my two very well geared and talented tanks can't keep me safe, then to me as a warlock, it means I have threat management issues. Have I been looking at it wrong?
Discuss please? I'd like to hear both sides of the discussion in an intelligent manner.
Edited to add: Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy that I even have to have this discussion? I didn't even know people raided without threat meters until yesterday!
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sarayana | |
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My hunter, Sarayana was my raiding main back when we first ran Naxx. She got super lucky and picked up Journey's End. Since then, she's pretty much been sidelined, but with the new dungeon tool, she's trying everything and working her way towards the pug minipet. Today, I picked up two 1-handers for her: Blood Weeper and Nighttime. Instead of just rushing out and enchanting them, I thought I'd do some research, and I'm scratching my head. The wowhead item comparison (with enchants) shows that they score about the same as my current weapon. They're a huge boost in agility, but a drop in AP (which I expected). However, wowwiki tells me that hunters now only get one AP per agility instead of two (told ya it's been a while...). So my question is, what would you do? Are they upgrades, or not? Should I leave it and hope Orca-hunter's Harpoon drops for me? As always, your input and help is MUCH appreciated, I'm scratching my head over this. I don't know if there are any other tags that are appropriate for this.. Sorry. Tags: gear, hunter
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petitepomme | |
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Does anyone know of anywhere in Austin that might be hiring right now?? I moved here some months ago from Portland, but lived in Austin for several years in the late 90s thru early 00s. For the last two months, I have been applying and sending out resumes like crazy, but...nothing.. I have a lot of experience, worked the past three years in customer service for an insurance ageny, before that two years as a travel agent, before that three years as a waiter and before that four years in retail. I live in south Austin, of course, something closer would be better and I'd like to make more than minimum wage, I was making way more in Portland, but I realize the economy is horrible, in fact it's worse than I expected. At this point, I'm pretty open minded. Thanks in advance!
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