Berms

I just took his word for it. I was too busy healing to pay attention to my debuff. I moved as little as possible.

For some reason, I thought you guys had downed HM Princes too. I only know the fights from a healing perspective. The trick to Princes seemed to be to have a hunter/warlock pet on the orbs. We got screwed by people ranging healers when we have to move as little as possible. Debuff caps out at 99. So if you move too much and get the debuff too high, never stop, and keep running for the rest of the fight. We four healed Valithria. I'm not entirely sure it was completely necessary, but occassionally the raid damage seemed like it could be be a bit too much for one person to cope with. Sindragosa is an absolute nightmare for casters. It's doable with three healers, but since we only had one caster, they were perpetually debuffed. We opted to go for four healers since there was ample dps. Got screwed by the tank transition. Seemed like the OT was always blocked when we needed him. Putricide was fine, but the person with the bloat needed so much more extra attention. One of the hunters mentioned being able to disengage the Blistering Cold on Sindragosa. I'm not sure if she meant the initial pull in, or just to get out faster. Ran out of time on LK.

In case I don't see anyone on later, I'm feeling worse than the last two days. I'm taking the night off. Good luck!

Came across this addon again. Is this the one you're using, Gump? http://www.nostockui.com/2010/03/blood-queen-addon/

Thought I'd post this here as a reminder: (25) March 30th - I may wind up missing the raid start time depending on how late mass runs. Otherwise, I'll be on just as the pulls begin. (Rebel has been previously notified. Will try to text him if I'm late.) (10) April 1st - I can't make the Helmet run that night. I'm getting up the following day around 4:30am (AST), so I'll have to pug it that week. (Wili has been previously notified.) Cheers!

Since I don't think our new Proxy members can view the Raiders forum, I'm posting this here. I'm trying to find out what the other groups use as their healing set for the portals. While we were successful last night, up until the first portal phase, I was extremely worried about mana. I actually went oom. I wasn't using my usual resto set and geared more for raw output, thus using primarily most of my elemental set. I actually went oom before the first portal and was on the verge of popping Mana Tide just to make it. Is there any other resto shaman that's done it? How have they done it? I don't remember my exact stats, but I suspect 3400+ sp, 1100+ haste, 34%+ crit, and 414mp5 while NOT casting. My normal set is much more balanced, but I'm wondering if I should swap in a touch more mp5, or just wing it. Up until the first portal, I'm gassed, but after that, the mana issues are gone. The last (and successful) attempt was 16k HPS with a peak of 19k HPS during BL. I got screwed with a lot of running around. Thoughts/suggestions? Thanks!

While the listing looks good, it looks like you have too many people on that roster: You have mentioned the following: Tanks: Darachai, Prydain, Rizel Healers: Kieta, Polished, Virage, Ruffpally, Pemmican, Unuyazi DPS: Yacoub, Rebelogic, Finallegend, Teapee, Bloodbolt, Itachi, Overcast, Honeymoomoo, Darkhuntar, FDragon, Wilistari, Perenelle, Loggs, Unholyfaith, Melodian, Berms, Kwicked Tanks - 3 Healers - 6 DPS - 17 Total - 27 Looks like we have too much. This excludes Dambala and any other names.

Just finished reading it all, and I thought I'd point out your typo: "At first we were worried that his gear might need some help before he came into our core run, but he has proved once again that it is gear score, not skill score." You're effectively saying that gear matters more than skill. Early morning updates may not be your fort

Nope. You know how those early bosses are on the PTR. No loot table and buggy as hell.

Just heard from Melodian. He's currently out sick. Today's been the first day he's been out of bed. He's hoping to be back for Sunday, but no promises at the moment.

Rebel - You might want to make a mention that there's some ladies in the guild. It's not a 100% sausagefest. Bash - Are you crazy? I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I don't want to be an officer. I don't envy you guys. I notice some of the stuff you guys do. I appreciate it, but I sure as hell don't want to be an officer. I'm quite happy being a face in the crowd. I read this recently, and think it's apt: http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/2010/02/guy-who-wanted-to-become-one-in-crowd.html

You better be sorry! How dare you put the interests of your country before those of Azeroth! What has your country done for you lately?

Perhaps the raid comp need to be better adjusted as well. I hate to ask people to play specs that they don't like, but if there were even two people willing to take turns each week juggling between their prefered and hated specs, then we might be able to get a bit better performance. Even then, that's a bit extreme. We shouldn't have to be doing that. We're not going for hardmodes yet.

Internet died on me last night. Gave it 10mins before giving up and going to bed. Sorry!

What nights and times work for you? I believe there are other guilds at a similar level to ours who may be in need of a regular. Otherwise, there may be hope in good pug runs or other guilds' alt runs.

I ran a raid once with Weep and he was dropping 8k like it was nothing. I remember chatting with him afterwards and he said he had to drop his dps down to 7k because the tanks couldn't keep up.

Why don't we ever talk about this in game? Anyways... Numbers time: Health (25man) - 40,440,000 Enrage Timer - 300secs (5mins) Assumptions - 2 tanks / 6 healers Raid dps required for 300s - 134,800 Average per dps - 7,929.41 True average - 7,694.12* True average assuming 18dps - 7,266.67* (IE: 5 healers) Raid dps required for 285s - 141,894.74 Average per dps - 8,346.75 True average - 8,111.45* True average assuming 18dps - 7,660.82* (IE: 5 healers) True average assumes the 2 tanks can maintain an average of 2,000dps for the duration of the fight. Healers... Well, they heal. Just wondering if we're going about it the wrong way? Are we punishing ourselves by having too many healers in this fight? If our tanks actually do far more than 2k, then it's just icing on the cake. If the tanks can put out 3k dps, then the required average from 17dps for the above 2 time frames comes down to 7,576.47 and 7,993.81 respectively.

When people quote 7.5k, what's their basis for that? Ie: How many tanks and healers? Are they assuming the tanks are doing 0? I don't even come close to 7.5k. I'd need a demo lock to be able to push anything close to that. Officers! *HINT* *HINT*

I'm just wondering if Patch even has enough health to survive long enough for us to test him out properly. I wouldn't be too kean on going into a city and having a raid sitting around at a target dummy trying to test our dps. Loatheb without spores could be another decent spot. Too bad, we have to dance first to get there... I can't think off the top of my head of any other out of the way targets with the kind of health to test out a raid's dps.

WTB Replenishment.