Raid: Salmon 25man Naxx

I know everyone is bored to death. Let's go ahead and get started early. We'll start on Dec. 30th, but still have the 31st off. New years yo! But, we will raid on Jan. 1st. I know some will be out of town etc, etc, but try to make it if you can.

Start: Tue, 12/30/2008 - 11:15

31 individuals signed up
Atar
Gares of War
Romniknight
Lunchbox
everstar
Minorthreat
Aidin
Felsteel
pulga
warion
runhilan
Closer
Triebryn
Lorb
Caronte22
Ensidious
Captnopants
Septima
Aurleas
jaibyrd
Dragon
Ora
Leighann
cloud
darkwolf
Rahn
lesda
Alprazalam
Jayel
Delirium
Darksight

LF1M

Here's what I have:

Aidin — Wed, 12/31/2008 - 18:40

Here's what I have: http://wowwebstats.com/rnowhrqptmceg

Merge da logz!

saedo — Wed, 12/31/2008 - 18:54

Merge da logz!

More then happy to if Atar

Aidin — Thu, 01/01/2009 - 13:02

More then happy to if Atar sends me hiz :)

prz

Dragon — Thu, 01/01/2009 - 12:56

prz

Here's some parses from

Atar — Tue, 12/30/2008 - 23:08

Here's some parses from tonight.

http://wowwebstats.com/2r21hcsfs4il3?s=319-38242

My DC messed up the parses or something. I'm still learning how to do this shit so bare with me.

Also, because my parses are fucked I just used my client. So deal with it. :p

YAY Parses talk

Dragon — Wed, 12/31/2008 - 00:13

First of all, low fps blows ><

Ok that out of the way, got a RL friend and coworker of mine gonna try to find a way around my graphics card to get better performance.

Now on with the show.

Anub'Rekhan
FPS problems or not, I can't allow all those parries to continue. Gimps my DPS and also is dangerous to the tank.

As far as interpreting Seal and Judgement damage, their crit rates are also low because while the backlash damage is not counted in damage done (to the mob) or in dps, it does effect the crit%.

White, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm.

White pulls about about even to my natural crit raid before a Druid. CStrike is High, Divine Storm is low.

Also there should be more Crusader Strikes than Divine Storms, another DPS Downer.

Had enough time for an Extra Avenging Wrath

Grand Widow Faerlina
Again, Crusader Strike crit comes in about where it should with the LotP buff. White Attacks and Divine Storm are both low crit rates.

Need to be careful as I get more gear as i was not watching my AOE and that might lead to dead adds in the future.

Oh and again parry problems, I really need to pay more attention to positioning even with these fps problems.

Had enough time to use Avenging Wrath Twice and I only used it once.

Maexxna:
First of All, lucky that I never got chucked across the entire room for this fight.
No Parries (Maybe my brain had finally got screwed on straight)
Again, Not noticing enough of a difference in the ratio of Crusader Strike:Divine Storm. Its questionable which one you should prioritize here, but chances are you probably want Crusader Strike.

Patchwerk:
Looks like I did have a coupla parries heading into the fight. I gotta come in more in an arc to avoid this I suppose (or there is that expertise thing).
The spread between Crusader Strike to Divine Storm improves here and the dps increase shows it.
White Crit seems to be right on the money while Divine Storm and Crusader Strike are both low crits.
5 Uses of Hammer of Wrath I believe tops the charts for me tonight in terms of use.

Overall:
No actual misses running at 178 Hit Rating (just over 5%) which means it is likely that I MIGHT have the ghost hit that is being talked about on the EJ forums. Might need to do some testing with a target dummy to confirm.

Low Use of Hammer of Wrath in sub 20% settings. Below 20% the only thing which should be prioritized first is Judgement. Should see a dps increase critting for 6k a few more times there at the end.

Things to Improve on:
Carrying Haste pots as well as mana pots. I didn't have mana issues at all in Arachnid Wing, more dps by actually using a consumable here.
AVOID PARRIES, and thus attack from behind obviously. Bad for the tank, bad for my damage.
More HoW Usage.
More Avenging Wrath Usage
Need to start Popping Divine Plea every CD

Aside: Although not listed here, one thing I noticed when we did kill Grobbulus was that we used very little of the room for kiting him around. About half of it specifically, the main problem i noticed with it is that when Gares would move him, Melee would still be in a cloud.

LoggerHead

saedo — Wed, 12/31/2008 - 00:08

LoggerHead

Gonna do my damnedest to make

Dragon — Tue, 12/30/2008 - 13:38

Gonna do my damnedest to make sure I'm awake and here for this. I'll ask Aidin to call me if I'm not there by a certain time. If I'm not there though its because I've gotten about 6 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours.

swimming lessons were moved

Jayel — Tue, 12/30/2008 - 15:54

swimming lessons were moved to Tuesdays so I'm not going to be available, but if you need a fill in on Thursday I should be around.

***I was just informed that lessons are cancelled this week so I should be on if you need me.***

QUIT BEING CONFUSING JAYEL!

Aidin — Tue, 12/30/2008 - 16:00

QUIT BEING CONFUSING JAYEL!

well.. my wife calls this

Jayel — Tue, 12/30/2008 - 18:34

well.. my wife calls this morning saying dont forget swimming is now on Tuesdays. Then she calls back saying that they are cancelled this week. Then she calls back again saying that she changed to Thrusday evening swimming lessons since it would be a better time because I dont have anything going on Thursday nights >.< So starting next week I wont be able to be online Thursday nights until later in the evening (8-9 server)

I'll do my best to be there,

Prime8 — Sun, 12/28/2008 - 22:56

I'll do my best to be there, unfortunately work may be an issue. I'm going to Rochester NY for a job, probably returning new years eve. Depending on how good or bad the job goes, I should be ready to hit it on the 30th.

Out of curiousity, what days will this regularly be scheduled? Tues, Wed, Thur?