Good raid leaders need to have a lot of tools in their tool basket. People skills, the ability to manage people and understand people is critical. Tactical skills, being able to study an encounter, look through a combat log and understand what went wrong, and being able to make the adjustments to complete an encounter more efficiently and more easily next time is critical. It's a political job, keeping groups happy and managing everyone's expectations. It requires time, effort, and a lot of knowledge. So give your raid leader a /hug.
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1-08-2007 @ 3:05AM
mkl said...
Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket.
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1-08-2007 @ 3:19AM
rec said...
i'd hug the raid leader if they actually knew how to do a specific raids and dont forget to Master Loot on bosses and then kick you for "ninjaing" items once they've told you to need everything :P
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1-08-2007 @ 5:33AM
Brim said...
TBH our raiding has dropped to zero with the last honor patch. Everyone is grinding for GM gear.
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1-08-2007 @ 6:07AM
Tetelestia said...
My guild hasn't raided in nearly a month due to the holidays and pending expansion.
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1-08-2007 @ 7:28AM
paul said...
"4. My guild hasn't raided in nearly a month due to the holidays and pending expansion."
this stupid pvp patch basically turned us into a pvp guild even thought everyone is spending their points now instead of saving them.
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1-08-2007 @ 11:04AM
okjj said...
"Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket."
As a raid leader, I, too, have been wondering - how do some of these guilds make it so far, so fast, in brand-new content?
Some raid boss encounters require an enormous amount of trial and error, money for repair bills and consumables, and, most importantly - TIME.
I can only think that 1) the raid leaders/team going into the encounter are just game geniuses who, after a few pulls, can figure everything out, or 2) that they have some sort of insider information...either from a friend who works at Blizzard (or they work at Blizzard themselves)...or...perhaps a private (illegal) server where they can give themselves uber-powers and go into a raid encounter on their own server and check it out that way.
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1-08-2007 @ 4:54PM
Melf said...
After getting back into AQ40 last week after being gone for the holidays, we improved on C'Thun, going from over 50% to 4% (Phase 1). You bet I hugged him :)
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1-08-2007 @ 6:31PM
hug paige said...
6. "Some guild leaders have more tools available to them than others. And not necessarily in their tool basket."
As a raid leader, I, too, have been wondering - how do some of these guilds make it so far, so fast, in brand-new content?
Some raid boss encounters require an enormous amount of trial and error, money for repair bills and consumables, and, most importantly - TIME.
I can only think that 1) the raid leaders/team going into the encounter are just game geniuses who, after a few pulls, can figure everything out, or 2) that they have some sort of insider information...either from a friend who works at Blizzard (or they work at Blizzard themselves)...or...perhaps a private (illegal) server where they can give themselves uber-powers and go into a raid encounter on their own server and check it out that way.
Called Chemistry + Prep!!
When you have a raid full of people who have gotten to know each other well enough to know what to expect out of them then your going to progress through new content quite well. WoW Wiki ftw (and its legal)!! Kudos to raid leaders who can identify problems quick and work to fix them.
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1-08-2007 @ 10:46PM
paul said...
no. i cant stand him.
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1-09-2007 @ 6:09AM
SwiftBlue said...
I did that. Twice.
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