This might be a bit nit-picky, but the Guild Raid Leader is Krindle, Vilius is his back-up. Beyond that, anyone who steps forward to lead an organized raid is a raid leader, whether it be Az, Luna, Cope or others who have demonstrated the ability.

And, nice work Richy, thanks!

There is information on Fairy Princess Status, Loot Rule clarification for non-GWJ people and on 25-group runs here -> http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/36712

Just a note for everyone running WOW on OSX there is a version of WowAceUpdater called MacAceUpdater. Its available at: http://code.google.com/p/macaceupdater/

I haven't tried it yet but figured I'd throw it out there.

Great job Richy.

But one thing you might want to change is the strongly suggested raiding mods. A threat meter is pretty much required now with Oman being the preferred. I can say with confidence that for any instances/raiding holding your threat is the key to avoiding bad things from happening.

I would like you to drop a link to the GWJ GREEN TEAM as well. We reach out to the newbies and returns who don't have the high level alts.
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/36798

I will leave it up to you to determine whether it is necessary for this Primer thread.

I haven't posted about this yet, but thanked Rich in vent last night. Think it needs a written response as well. This is good stuff. Thanks for pulling it all together. Very helpful. Also, good post for the Green Team.

Arenas - Arena Unit Frames
BGs - I like Deadly Boss Mods, but Big Wigs might have all the same timers and such.

How badly are priests needed? I was thinking of starting a Shaman and eventually being Resto @ 70, but if you really need priests I can roll one instead. I have the most experience with them anyway.

Sweet, I was born to healbot.

Just as a sidenote - we are not really short on raiding tanks these days, although I understand we had limited availability this week. We have:

Krin
Vil
Me
Blyvie
Zel
Smithy

And are about to be joined by Titanos and possibly Kam and Heero, if they so desire, once they are geared.

This is not to say that people shouldn't roll tanks or play whatever they want to, just that one needs 3-4 Tank-specced toons per 25 man raid, and that doesn't seem to be a problem for us at the moment. Yes, we had bad availability this week. We also had only enough healers for one Kara, according to Krin's post. So we have about 2x the raiding tanks we need, whereas one wants 5-7 healers, and that about maxes us out on the high end, not allowing for many absences.

I think our greatest need is healers, followed by non-Hunter ranged DPS; elemental shamans and shadow priests would be particularly nice, but we are not overcrowded at warlock or mage either.

Just my two cents; as always, play what you enjoy!

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I agree on adding Healbot to the recommendations, there's a link to it in the "GWJer Mod Recomendations" section above in an excellent post by Deepsea. I just wanted to add a couple of quick comments about it. I wouldn't say that it takes the excitement out of healing, and I was afraid it would. I've said before, I was very reluctant to try it out, I didn't want a mod playing the game for me. But, I tried it at the advice of the KA folks (Deepsea, et al), who actually require certain mods, and this is one of them. I love it now, and I don't find myself relying on it to cast my heals, many of my heals are not even bound to it, but man, it sure does make keeping an eye on health bars much easier. I feel like I can actually see more of what's going on with the healing bars very prominently standing out on the periphery and changing color if someone gets in trouble (oooo, pretty colors!). Plus, it shows me when my PoM jumps and where it lands. Those are the two big pluses for me. I know there is more that Healbot can do, but I'm still pretty mod illiterate so I haven't delved too deeply into the options and settings.

Sure. Noone likes the damn hunters, that is, until you want something killed, then suddenly we're your bestest friend.

There was a total of 4 tanks, 6 healers. 3 tanks had decent availability, the 4th only having one day up. IIRC, there was a similar situation with the healers.

As to points 1-4, 3 is the only one that would carry weight with me if I were scheduling folks; 1-2 are normal for us, which is fine. People falling under 4 would find themselves running nothing, because they are under geared. I can't say much for 5 & 6, because they're hypotheticals, and not listed

Ultimately, tankless for anything kinda bugs me. I love running instances more than anything else in this addiction we call WoW. I can't stand pugs, and FWIW, I include BGs in instances. To me, that is what makes WoW awesome, just like it's what sucked me into FFXI for well over 300 days of /played(First account cancelled @ 170+, nearly 200; second was at close to 140). I love just chillin & killin with folks, whereever, whenever.

I know it's of little help towards Green's goals and current situation but when you guys start hitting 62 and up, Titanos still needs and will need (for a long time) all kinds of rep from CE normal, the Auchindoun dungeon complex, and what not.

Kam's in sort of the same boat, although I realized earlier today that I only need around 550 more rep to hit revered with CE and get a very nice necklace. Guess what just became my #1 priority...

On the subject of tanking, I'm happy to tank anything any time unless it's just getting too late. I'm getting my gear upgrade needs organized, then I'll be updating the instances needed thread with my current state. That said, if anyone wants to run SV or MT....

Can you tell I like ellipses....