WoW BHA: WoD Raids: 12/9 - 12/15 -- UPDATE 2

Post your availability here for the week of TUESDAY 12/9 through MONDAY 12/15.

Shanker - mDPS mostly awful Rogue - Tuesday / Thursday / Sat. / Sun.
=or=
Zyphos - incredibly skilled and charismatic tank / mDPS monk

I am heading it up this week because I guess Zenke is living The Hangover this week.

(I'm Bradley Cooper.)

Second run for THURSDAY at 7:00 PM server!

Posted at the bottom of the thread.

Diogenes - 2 ft tall frosty bundle of mage-secksiness
Yagrum - 4 ft tall blessed stack of divine judgement

Tuesday/Thursday seemed to work well, though I can make pretty close to any day as long as I can plan for it. 7-9 server throughout the week, most times on the weekend.

Hackworth is in for whenever.

I'm still good to come in off the bench as an addition/substitution later on in the evening both nights. (Around 9 server).

Sidenote - the main note coming out of last night was that we needed to eek out some more DPS to bring down the Butcher. Enchants/Gemming can help with this. Here's a quick primer on Enchants for raiders:
1) Only Weapon, Neck, Rings, and Cloak can be enchanted
2) Only secondary stats can be enchanted
3) There are two tiers of enchant - one very cheap and easy (usually +30 secondary stat) and one much more expensive (usually +50 secondary stat). Weapon enchants are pretty much all expensive.

I would suggest doing the cheap enchants on Heroic (630) blue gear, and saving the more expensive stuff for raiding epics you won't plan on replacing for a while. Since the epic crystals are limited, we should prioritize tanks and healers for those, though there are a bunch of guild enchanters who are stockpiling crystals.

Figure out what your most important secondary stat is for your spec, (icy-veins.com can help) and send me or another enchanter a list of the stat and slots you need enchants for. We can pump them out for you.

My understanding is that JC's can also produce relatively inexpensive +secondary stat gems for heroic blue gear with gem slots.

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Ely - Druid
Guardian/Balance (Tank/DPS)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 6pm - Midnight
Saturday anytime

Can't go Thursday or Sunday

Pencilshow- Warlock
Destro(Dps)

Weekdays - 6-late
saturday-all times
sunday-not avaliable

Dysplastic wrote:

I'm still good to come in off the bench as an addition/substitution later on in the evening both nights. (Around 9 server).

Sidenote - the main note coming out of last night was that we needed to eek out some more DPS to bring down the Butcher. Enchants/Gemming can help with this. Here's a quick primer on Enchants for raiders:
1) Only Weapon, Neck, Rings, and Cloak can be enchanted
2) Only secondary stats can be enchanted
3) There are two tiers of enchant - one very cheap and easy (usually +30 secondary stat) and one much more expensive (usually +50 secondary stat). Weapon enchants are pretty much all expensive.

I would suggest doing the cheap enchants on Heroic (630) blue gear, and saving the more expensive stuff for raiding epics you won't plan on replacing for a while. Since the epic crystals are limited, we should prioritize tanks and healers for those, though there are a bunch of guild enchanters who are stockpiling crystals.

Figure out what your most important secondary stat is for your spec, (icy-veins.com can help) and send me or another enchanter a list of the stat and slots you need enchants for. We can pump them out for you.

My understanding is that JC's can also produce relatively inexpensive +secondary stat gems for heroic blue gear with gem slots.

The group I run with had a similar issue; we found that having an extra healer for the last 30% was what got us past him. Might be worth looking at that option as well if you haven't.

Fenrigaar - Druid: Broccoli Form
or
Fenrigaar - Druid: Starfall Form

I can arrange pretty much any weekday next week. I liked the 7-9 time frame, but I can swing anything between 6-10

Winterbourne, ice and rust
Frost DK (DPS)
Monday - Thursday: 6pm - Midnight
Friday: 6pm - 10pm
Saturday - Sunday: Noon - Midnight

I'm not on Blackhand, but I have a rogue and a shadow priest* at 100 if you end up needing extras. I'm available during the evening all week, and all day on Mondays. My Battle.net ID should be in the spreadsheet, but if it's not or you can't find it, it's Krevantis#1937.

*Dual-specced holy, but I haven't begun gearing for it yet. I could heal in a pinch but may not be as effective without some spirit items.

Keladry.
Holy Paladin

Diogenes.
Magelet.

M-Th: 5pm server - 9pm server
F: 5:30 server - Late. Yay Fridays.

Saturday: Whatevs.
Sunday: 5pm Server - 9pm Server

Golightly - Monk
WW (mDPS)

Unfortunately can't make it on Tuesday this week and Saturday and Sunday is iffy

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Monday I'm completely free though

Serj
Ret Paladin (mDPS)

I will likely be available almost every day.

Youko is up for whenever.

TrashiDawa
Frost DK - mDPS
Anytime after 7 server.

Also considering the transition of difficulty and time between MoP and WoD, I would like to suggest increasing the raid time from 2-3/4 hours depending on how well the raid goes. Based on the Progression mentality and time to get used to and down bosses, I think we need more than two hours in terms of getting a good amount of bosses down. Just learning each boss and their mechanics should take a lot of time. If we cannot sustain that amount of time I am perfectly fine with having a 2 hour raid time. I just think that 3/4 hours is more typical of progression raiding.

Miltankk (Prot/Ret Paladin) - Prefer mainly retribution over prot, as we need the dps.

Can do Tues/Thurs 6PM-12 PM EST
Wed: 3PM-12PM EST
No bueno Friday/Sunday
Sat Anytime

After this week I have finals practically all next week.

As A Side Note: Please look for the best spec your class can use. If you think you can swing respeccing and getting relatively used to it with the specs necessary gear, might be a good try. Doing guild dungeon runs to farm for the perfect gear is also a good idea.

Unfortunately guys, this guild (as the name implies) is filled with people that have full time jobs plus other responsibilities. 3-4 hour raid nights just aren't feasible at this time. We appreciate your enthusiasm and, as always, you guys wanting to help your guildies get geared up. I'm sure if anyone has specific questions on speccing and gearing they will ask. Hack, Reap, Selika, and myself are also always here for questions or concerns regarding raiding.

Ophius MM Hunter

I can do Tues 6-12 & Sun-Mon (14-15)

I have my state's convention wed-sat.

My schedule will normalize A LOT after this week.

Jorrn (ret paladin) is doubtful for this week. I'm still grinding my way to 100. Between work, my daughter's basketball schedule, holiday stuff and work, my schedule is a hot unpredictable mess.

I'm happy to help out with enchants. If anyone sends me (Jorrn) a tell or in-game mail, one of my alts has the enchanting hut and I can hook you up with a cheap (+30) enchant. Tell me slot and stat and I'll see what I can do. One per customer. Supplies limited.

On that same note, how are y'all fixed for food? Anything I can do to help?

I've finally gotten my hunter (Caysonara) geared to a point where I'm almost raid ready. If you need a huntard I'd be happy to join you!

The only night that really doesn't work for me is Monday otherwise I can make almost anything work.

Tiffin prot/ret pally

Available all day Tuesday and Thursday at this stage. (work pending)

Also working on my priest for more ranged dps/heals if needed

The first raid schedule will be up this afternoon.

Miristaa - ele/resto shaman. Not sure if I will be ready for Tuesday or not, but will try.

Kosia - BM Hunter

I can make Tuesday, but probably not Thursday.

Updated.

Also, I forgot Pencilshow. Which is probably Hack's fault.

I found this spreadsheet on reddit, and typed a few of the test subjects in this thread into the sheet. Check it out, and see where the group stands right now

I also shared the document, and made it editable by anyone. If you don't see your name, type the name and server into the appropriate fields, and the sheet will pull the relevant armory data for your character into the document!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

though the raid roster looks full, Drunkentank is also available for raiding set aside both days so i will keep an eye on the roster

drunkentank wrote:

though the raid roster looks full, Drunkentank is also available for raiding set aside both days so i will keep an eye on the roster

Updated.

Miri we may have you flex over to heals as we are pushing 20 players.

Just a reminder that Mythic and LFR Wing 1 go live this week so it is possible we may see more instance wonkiness tonight.

A tentative Thursday or Friday raid is being looked at. By me only. Because Hack is incredibly lazy.

Incredibly.