BHA Raids 08.02 - 08.08 T/Th/Sun All Posted

ZOMG August already!

Post days and times you are available. We typically raid evenings from 7:00 - 10:00 Central.

If you wish to not be scheduled for 4.0 content please say so.

Tues:
7:00
BWD
Tanks: Cheeto, Carg
Heals: Grinds, Rant, Act
DPS: Jorrn, Selika, Youko, Gannon, TK

Wed:
Need more sign-ups to make a Wed run happen this week.

Thurs:
7:30
Firelands
Tanks: Cheeto, Carg
Heals: Grinds, Lawk, Act
DPS: Selika, Elcam, TK, Youko, Zero

Sunday:
7:30
BoT
Tanks: Carg, Cheeto
Heals: Rant, Lawk, Gurista
DPS: Selika, Marrak, Youko, Gannon, Grinds

If Gannon wants to bring his Protadin and Carg wants to bring his mage or something, that'd be cool. Pretty sure there is nothing for Carg in BoT at this point, and gearing out another tank is never a bad thing.

Sunday looks like it should be a rather quick evening, since we'll likely clear BoT around 9:00 server and there isn't anything left after that.

I'm pretty sure I got everyone. I did this pretty quickly, so if I missed you, just shout, and I'll make a sexy remix.

You can has Rant heals any day but Thursday.

ELewis17 wrote:

Post days and times you are available. We typically raid evenings from 7:00 - 10:00 Central.

Carganthem, Protection/Retribution, whenever.

Also Caprigan, Discipline (Shielding)/Shadow, if needed (and he is not ready for Firelands).

ELewis17 wrote:

If you wish to not be scheduled for 4.1 content please say so.

I guess Carg can always use some ZA and ZG runs for more orbs and sweet VPs, and maybe a bear - and gods know Cap hasn't touched them yet so there's still a ton of loot there he could nab - but I'm surprised you're offering.

Perhaps you meant 4.0 or 4.2?

Keldar wrote:

Perhaps you meant 4.0 or 4.2?

Fixed, smart-ass.

My last week of COMPLETE Wide openness!

Tues-Thur, Sun Anytime.

I have lots of toons, whatever is needed for whatever content. As long as I can drink I am fine.

zeroKFE - rDPS, liability
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: 7 - 10 PM I can do ONE of these nights the full time; I could potentially do a second, but I would probably have to leave around 9:30 PM or so.
Sunday: wife's birthday, so it would be unwise to schedule myself for a raid

Since I really only have one day this week, I wouldn't complain if that day was Firelands. Beggers can't be choosers, though, so whatever you end up scheduling will be fine.

Jorrn (part-time ret pally/full-time dorf corpse) is available Tuesday or Thursday for fill-in duty in case someone's running late.

I'd really like a BH run at the start of the night if there's a slot available, but I'll leave the real raiding to the pros for another week or so.

Hey i'm back guys, Lights will only be available on wednesday for this week :/

xbroskix wrote:

Hey i'm back guys

/cheer!

Gannon - spriest....or w/e alts listed below

I'm gonna say that I'm available for anything but since I'm waiting for an Africa job coming up in September, I could get sent out on a week long job here or there out of the blue. You never know what to expect in the oilfield business

Once I start my rotation in Africa, I will be a little more steady with a month on and a month off...just for now I'm in limbo till it starts up.

Who knows....I could be available all the way until I leave in September XD

Actinide heals/rDPS+replenishment

Tues/Wed/Thurs: any time

Sunday availability is a probable- if needed I can be a backup for that day, but I can't 100% guarantee my availability in time for raid.

Elcameron DK can go Tues and Thurs this week.

Any day: Whenevers.

Edit: as a small aside - at some point I'd like to be in on BWD for Chimaeron - only one I'm missing from that instance so I can get the DoaSW title. No biggie though.

Enix wrote:

Jorrn (part-time ret pally/full-time dorf corpse) is available Tuesday or Thursday for fill-in duty in case someone's running late.

Oh, someone will be late... looks like you should get slotted in.

Grinds - crappy rdps / crappy heals. T TH Sun 6-11

Enix wrote:

I'd really like a BH run at the start of the night if there's a slot available, but I'll leave the real raiding to the pros for another week or so.

BH is just touch-and-go because we have to actually control Tol Barad in order to do the raid, so we can't really schedule for it. Also, everyone else in the raid seems content to let me try to defend or take it all by myself - even though I'm pretty terribad at PvP - and then when I fail miserably I end up the guild scapegoat, even though Grinds is the official holder of that title. It's a hard life trying to be responsible, I tell you.

It would also help if I didn't leave my PvP set in the bank next time, although I'm not sure that holding off 6 angry hordies for a few extra seconds would have helped all that much.

Youko-hunter

Any day but Wednesday. Would be nice if my hunter get to kill nef.

If any other class that I might have is needed for 4.0 contents, take a pick out of the toons in my sig, use at ur own risk tho.

Keldar wrote:

BH is just touch-and-go because we have to actually control Tol Barad in order to do the raid, so we can't really schedule for it.

I know that. I just want folks to keep that options open if the stars align (meaning we actually have TB and enough folks who want to run it).

How 'bout next time I help? Two prot paladins can hold off a lot of Horde for a long time as long as we remember to lock down the healers.

(Or we'll just surrender more slowly.)

I should be free on Marrak Th and Sunday next week

TK will be around any day during the week. I can't do sunday this week however.

Tues:
7:00
BWD
Tanks: Cheeto, Carg
Heals: Grinds, Rant, Act
DPS: Jorrn, Selika, Youko, Gannon, TK

Wed:
Need more sign-ups to make a Wed run happen this week.

Thurs:
7:30
Firelands
Tanks: Cheeto, Carg
Heals: Grinds, Lawk, Act
DPS: Selika, Elcam, TK, Youko, Zero

Sunday:
Waiting on some more sign-ups to get a Sunday run.

I'm pretty sure I got everyone. I did this pretty quickly, so if I missed you, just shout, and I'll make a sexy remix.

I just realized that I probably won't be available Friday until later - I'm not entirely sure what time right now - and really should have mentioned it above, but since we don't generally raid Fridays anyway I guess it's not a big deal.

Finial/Forshay: Bowing out this week.

I just took myself off of Sunday since it's not looking good.

Just want to ask before I get any new equipment: I'll be primarily healing this tier from the look of the current composition we have, correct? Luckily gear between the healing and DPS specs for priests overlaps to a degree- I'll surely keep a shadow set current- but I wanted to buy the optimum pieces for the spec I'll be using most.

Which would you prefer? I'd love for you to dps but what you want is more important.

We currently have five healers that sign up regularly and are geared and experienced enough for Firelands content:
Rantin
Grinds
Selika
Lawk
Act
With you being the only cloth wearing healer, I'd say that you should spend the VP on DPS gear and take the cloth healing drops we see. That way you aren't battling our other clothies (Fin, TK, Gannon, etc) for the DPS gear quite as much. But by all means, pick up whatever gear suits the spec you wish to play most. You've been very flexible and it is greatly appreciated.

TL;DR - We'll keep scheduling you as both roles as needed until you ask me not to.

tundra wrote:

Which would you prefer? I'd love for you to dps but what you want is more important.

I truly, truly do not have a preference between the two. Whichever one the guild needs is what I want to do. For loot purposes I'll do as Lawk suggested and treat my main spec as healing and offspec as DPS. I'll keep both sets as up to date ilvl-wise as possible, and both will be progression raid ready (minimum ilvl 360 on both).

Landshrk83 wrote:
tundra wrote:

Which would you prefer? I'd love for you to dps but what you want is more important.

I truly, truly do not have a preference between the two. Whichever one the guild needs is what I want to do. For loot purposes I'll do as Lawk suggested and treat my main spec as healing and offspec as DPS. I'll keep both sets as up to date ilvl-wise as possible, and both will be progression raid ready (minimum ilvl 360 on both).

Thank you for your willingness to help. I'm in the same boat, heal when I can, dps when I can. I've got little competition with my gear also, so it is good. We are always looking for folks to fill multiple roles and are thankful for everyone's efforts. I'm looking forward to having some new people join us too, hopefully soon.

Once again, that was fun. I still have no clue how I got through Phase 3 of the big boss on ToT (swim up ... lightning! ... swim down ... swim ... sideways? ... blow cooldowns ... profit!) but the first two phases weren't bad once I knew what to look for.

Thanks for the mace. That sword felt oh so wrong.

My challenge for next time is to figure out where to stand when I'm fighting dragons. I find that I'm either eating an electrocute or taking a tail swipe upside the head. Either way (i.e. dead or stunned), I'm finding that it gimps my DPS probably more than all those greens I insist on wearing.

Sometimes to be effective, it means staying alive long enough to DPS =)

And the 4.X content hates melee characters. It often won't be your fault when you're gimped since most of these fights involve forcing you to run around to not get hit.

I'd be willing to try my luck Thursday and Sunday. Resto durid or lazr chickin. Since I haven't done a non-farm raid since Ulduar, what boss guides would I need to study prior to the raid?