Comments on: 5 Tricks to Boost Progression

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:57:49 +0000

When it’s kiddie aggro, you can’t really blame people, but it is nice when parents announce “baby aggro” before running off to put their toddler back to bed.

Random AFKs are sometimes a point of contention between my guild and myself too, but I’m the new kid, so I’m not in a position yet to ask people if they can wait 10 minutes until the break. I have noticed that our raid leaders have been a bit stricter lately though ^_^

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:48:21 +0000

/giggle

I think it depends on age. I’ve noticed the girls around my age (mid 20′s) seem to have little respect for things they don’t understand. Thusly, they try and distract from games and on to something they know better (much to our dismay -_-).

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:39:54 +0000

Thanks! Hope we get him next week (2 full days of focus most likely)

Urgh it’s little things that seem to be the biggest problem with that fight. We can get into P2 consistently after 2 nights of attempts, but I’ve burned ALL my mana on P1′s “little things” by then

But this fight made me LOVE the expression editor on WoL hehehe

By: Taaryn

Taaryn — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:36:45 +0000

Interesting read, for sure.

A lot of real life stuff has prevented my guild from progressing like it has in the past, we just don’t have the same kind of time every week. Thing is, I see a lot of what little time we do have squandered by constant AFKing from a small handful of people. Its hard to want to b**ch at someone for it, not always knowing the reasons, but in raids its frustrating when 9-24 people are constantly waiting around for one.

In any case I think I’m going to try your advice and crack down on it. I’m a mom myself, I know stuff happens and stuff comes up, but damn – we probably waste an hour a night of the 2 nights we raid. Its taxing.

By: BrokeWarlock

BrokeWarlock — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:01:21 +0000

I find that these sort of questions are better asked within spec and class. If the Fire mage is beating the Arcane mage but they’re both on top of their rotations, it’s forgivable because the point of specs is to be different. If, say, a warlock using Demon spec and Incinerate-centered rotations is being beaten by one in Demon who spams Shadow Bolt between DoTs/CDs/procs… you have a point.

By: khizzara

khizzara — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:21:34 +0000

Woo hoo! My guild does all of these things! Though we could improve upon our use of pre- and post-raid forum threads.

Great article, as always.

By: The Daily Quest: Food for thought

The Daily Quest: Food for thought — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:24:03 +0000

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By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:19:22 +0000

Good luck!!

I’ve actually never downed Cho’gall. My old guild killed him for the first time about a week after I left!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:16:03 +0000

I still like knowing ahead of time exactly when we’re going to break, even when running 10s. I get irritated when we take breaks every time someone has to go to the bathroom. We waste so much time that way. Unless someone has a bladder infection, they can go for 90 minutes without visiting the can.

By: Top Rosters

Top Rosters — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:54:21 +0000

I completely agree with the importance of using World of Logs to analyse the fight afterwards. I never understood how a player who is doing less dps than another player of the same class in a guild can be ok with it and not want to find out why. World of Logs makes it so easy to see where you are falling down that there really is no excuse.