Raid Prep!

The Art of Raiding: Raid Manners, Preparation and Etiquette

Overview

• Raiding Cultures

• Raid Etiquette

• Raid Preparation

• Casual

• Social

• Retro

• Dedicated

• Gear or Tier

• Serious

• Hard Core

Types of Raids

• Progressive o Focus is on continuous improvement and completing

endgame content at 10 or 25 player level

• Non - Progressive o Focus is on other things o OR there are not enough players to run 10 or 25

player content

Culture of Raids

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Raid Culture

We are modest but mighty educators' gaming guild providing extreme tourism guides for MMORPGs and virtual worlds. Our focus is educational exploration in virtual worlds, MMORPGS and mobile games.

We are also exploring guild progression and endgame content. We are a level 25 guild. We are raiding and aspire to do group battlegrounds by the end of 2013.

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Raid Etiquette

• Expectations

o Know your Classo Know the Gear you needo Know your Roleo Know your Value to Groupo Know the Basics of the Raido Come Prepared to Learn and Share

Raid Etiquette

• Research the boss fights and review videos to get a general feel for the fight

• Use Dungeon Journal to review potential gear drops

• Ask questions, for clarification, before the raid starts or before boss pulls

Raid Etiquette

• Ignore other player's advice

• Get defensive when constructive criticism is given

• Stand in Stuff

• Go AFK during raid

• Be a Free-rider

• Tank if you are not a Tank

Raid Etiquette DON'Ts

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Raid Prep

Tools

• Calendar

• Crafting o Enchanting - Most gear enchantso Alchemy - Flasks and Potionso Leatherworking - Leg Enchants - nonCasterso Tailoring - Leg Enchants - Casterso Cooking - Feasts / Banquetso Inscription - Shoulder Enchants and Glyphso Jewelcrafting - Gems

Tools

• Metagame o Strategies and Mechanicso Icy-Veins, Fat Boss

o Raid Party Optimization o Askmrrobot, Wowheroes, WoW website, Noxxic

What do Raids Look Like?

Tune in at 7 PM MT Tonight (5/18/13)

Questions / Discussion