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Hamfist, healers, raiding, etc
Shihli — Tue, 04/08/2008 - 11:37
So right now we've only got 5 "reliable" (read: there everynight, on time, ready to rock, with stable connections) healers in Hamfist. That's right, only five.
Garreth
Vulk
Katibug
Closer
Caliroll
In many circumstances and on a number of boss fights, we need no fewer than eight (8) to make it a smooth kill. Of our "less reliable" healers, we have:
Alydis
Clos
Cisper (only recently due to university)
So basically, if the stars align and we butcher a holy goat we can expect to have a smooth raid. Otherwise, we will be dragging our feet and praying to whatever gods might be listening that we can actually kill something on a given night.
Off-spec, limited-attendance, and alt healer options are also limited:
Luchs (T4 geared w/ some experience)
Turth (T4+ geared w/ some good experience)
Irnub (T4 geared w/ little healing experience)
Antiquite ON CORETWO or CISPER
Magieck
Warion (when LF1M isn't raiding)
Captnopants (when LF1M isn't raiding)
Basically, what I'm posting this for is this:
I'm begging that any guildie that is a qualified healer, that has run with us in the past, consider the option of helping out as often as they can. We want to kill Illidan. At our current pace and rate, we won't. It's that simple. At our current pace we cannot kill him. We're losing so many healers and bleeding so much loot because of it, that it's going to become a festering boil of raid non-progression that will be hard to shed, without a little help from our guildies.
This is my very first blog, so it may have a tendancy to be incoherent ramblings of a madman. Today ( Monday april 7th) I find my self somewhat out of place. I am interested in interacting with WoW, but i don't really feel like being in game on my toon, or my alt. In situations like these I often find myself looking at outside WoW sources of information, websites and the like. Today I was on bosskillers to privy up on some Rage Winterchill, and Anetheron strats for LF1M's upcomming Hyjal progression. After reading strats and watching vids, I trolled around and looked up other bosses from Archimond, to Akama, to Illidan, and man did I watch Illidan, 4 vids to be exact. After much strat learning, I now know 1 thing, I am going to die alot on him. Well after looking at illidan strats I noticed off to the side a list of top guilds in the world to down him, and then recent downings followed by a dropbar of all the servers in the game, so I decided to check at Gorg and see whats what. I looked up Eternity, Oblivion, and for ego's sake us. I was expecting us to be ranked 14-15 or so on the server with the combination of other alliance and horde guilds who are where we are. I was pleasantly suprised to see that we are ranked 5 on the whole server, and 4 for the alliance. This may be old news already, and to some it may be "big deal I know we are great", which is cool, but to me I think its really outstanding because I remember the Beginning.
Keep in mind, "regulars" (people who have been here for the past month) WILL get preferential invites.
Keep in mind, this run is NOT for loot. Do not sign up with the hopes that we will be looting bosses along the way.
Keep in mind, this is NOT an alt-run or a "fun" run. This is a dead-serious, fully-flasked, MOUNT run. We're not here to cater for alts (except Pudolski).
Please sign up if interested, and I'll see what I can do for you.
Keep in mind, "regulars" (people who have been here for the past month) WILL get preferential invites.
Keep in mind, this run is NOT for loot. Do not sign up with the hopes that we will be looting bosses along the way.
Keep in mind, this is NOT an alt-run or a "fun" run. This is a dead-serious, fully-flasked, MOUNT run. We're not here to cater for alts (except Pudolski).
Please sign up if interested, and I'll see what I can do for you.
Keep in mind, "regulars" (people who have been here for the past month) WILL get preferential invites.
Keep in mind, this run is NOT for loot. Do not sign up with the hopes that we will be looting bosses along the way.
Keep in mind, this is NOT an alt-run or a "fun" run. This is a dead-serious, fully-flasked, MOUNT run. We're not here to cater for alts (except Pudolski).
Please sign up if interested, and I'll see what I can do for you.
Keep in mind, "regulars" (people who have been here for the past month) WILL get preferential invites.
Keep in mind, this run is NOT for loot. Do not sign up with the hopes that we will be looting bosses along the way.
Keep in mind, this is NOT an alt-run or a "fun" run. This is a dead-serious, fully-flasked, MOUNT run. We're not here to cater for alts (except Pudolski).
Please sign up if interested, and I'll see what I can do for you.
Keep in mind, "regulars" (people who have been here for the past month) WILL get preferential invites.
Keep in mind, this run is NOT for loot. Do not sign up with the hopes that we will be looting bosses along the way.
Keep in mind, this is NOT an alt-run or a "fun" run. This is a dead-serious, fully-flasked, MOUNT run. We're not here to cater for alts (except Pudolski).
Please sign up if interested, and I'll see what I can do for you.
May need a fill-in or two, please sign up if interested and I will see what I can do.
Most spots are expected to be filled with people that were here last week when we were ELEVEN SECONDS OFF >:(
How to Fix Hamfist Raiding
Shihli — Tue, 04/01/2008 - 11:21
This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, Garreth -
I don't think adding more days to the raiding calendar is going to help, not in the way one might think anyway. Instead of adding more days, we need to begin asking for more from our raiders.
Hear me out.
We have it set up so that under ideal circumstances, everyone is in raid and at BT at 7pm *sharp* for first pulls. Invites start going out at 6:30. However, many nights invites aren't out until 6:40 and people start getting la-dee-da on us, asking us to wait for them to finish dailies, they need something crafted, etc etc. While this is all well and good, it delays the start of the raid even further than normal. Eventually enough people trickle in to raid at 7:30 for us to actually START raid - now a half our late.
Once we do start raiding, people aren't paying attention during trash or on "easy" boss fights (Supremus, for example) and so they die in silly ways that end up costing us MORE time. Then a number of people have to go afk because of god-knows-what (for the record, going afk to vomit or what not is totally fine). THEN someone d/c's and we have to wait for them (even if just for trash).
In short, we've gotten really relaxed. Which is fine, from the standpoint that a lot of us just got off work and would rather be chill and groovy than uptight. However, from the standpoint of wanting to kill bosses and *progress*, this isn't working.
What I propose is this:
1) When we say invites go out at 6:30, they go out at 6:30. Finish your dailies before raid starts, or after raid is done. Get your pots/stuff made before raid starts, or after it is done. Don't ask the raid to wait for your health pots.
2) When we say pulls start at 7:00, they start at 7:00. We won't wait for you. If you missed your summon, too bad - get here faster.
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