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Sedona
Level 80 DeathKnight, Hybrid.
Orc. Horde.
Drakkari (PvP) - NorthAmerica
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RAID ETIQUETTE
Defined as: the conduct or procedure required by the raiding guild to be observed in raids.
Signing Up For Raids
If you sign up for a raid, you are expected to be online and at the summoning stone 20 minutes prior to start time. Invites will be sent out 15 minutes before first pull. First pull is 8 PM server on all days except Sunday when raids begin at 6 PM server. Invites and summons will be closed at 3 minutes before pull, at this time buffs should begin. If for some reason you are going to be flakey and not show or be late then you need to post in the Attendance thread. Do not assume because the raid is full you will not be raiding. If you are online and at the stone at the appropriate time and you are not slotted in the main group you will still receive EPGP as long as you remain on your raiding character outside of the instance. If you would like to switch to an alt during this time you must ask the raid leader, however if you switch you will not get EPGP and you must remain in vent in the raid channel in case you are needed on your main. If you log during this time and are not in vent and are needed for the raid you signed up for, you will be penalized unless you received permission from the raid leader.
Read Strategies & Watch Videos
You should always read boss strategies and watch videos before raids until you are familiar with the fights yourself. Some raiders feel it is unnecessary because someone can always explain the fight. Explaining the fight and seeing the fight are entirely different. It isn’t that you can’t succeed by having it explained to you, but the explanations make a lot more sense when you’ve at least seen it once.
Websites like TankSpot and BossKillers are great places to find strategies. Tankspot has several well done videos, and if you are checking the raider forums frequently you will also find the strats we will use and links to videos.
Be Prepared
Have all your necessary raid items purchased and in your bags before the invites go out. Also remember to have your armor fully repaired. Have alternate gear in your bags and ready in case you have to switch up on different boss fights.
Buy anything you need ahead of time and not at the time of invites. Having to track down repairs, go to the AH, or run to your bank “really quick” takes longer than you think.
Do not rely on someone else to have feasts or spare consumables available for you. Penalties may occur if a player consistantly comes unprepared.
Forgetfulness is a part of life. No one remembers everything all of the time. However, basic raid/party etiquette requires you to make your best effort at preparedness. In your rush to accept the summon or hop on the gryphon, take a moment to check that you have all you need.
Use the acronym "PARR" (as in, up to par) to check that you have made the following basic preparations:
Potions
Appropriate Gear
Reagents
Repairs
Plan Ahead
If you want to go to a raid, you need to plan ahead and make sure that you are not tied up with something when invites come out. The best rule of thumb is if you can’t finish up with what you’re doing 15 minutes before invite, don’t do it.
Wait at the Stone
There will always be people who need summons to the stone and the first couple of people there should immediately begin summoning. It is good policy to make sure that you are already at the stone at the time of invite. Do not wait for summons! First, it will impress the raid leaders that you are always ready. Second, you help get the raid going by doing the summoning.
Pay Attention
Nothing is more frustrating to a raid leader than someone who doesn’t pay attention. When raid leaders speak you must listen. An example of this is the Grand Widow Faerlina fight in Naxx. It seems that every time this fight is explained to new dps, at least one of those dps will kill the adds early because they didn’t hear they weren’t supposed to.
Pay attention! Don’t be the person that has to have something explained to them twice. If you didn’t understand the first time, ask for further clarification quickly.
Keep Your Trap Shut
There’s a time and a place for screwing around in a raid. Joking around, goofing off, etc. during trash pulls or between pulls is perfectly acceptable with moderation. But during boss encounters and explanations “keep your trap shut” unless you are an officer, raid leader, or have been directly addressed by said officers or raider leaders.
This isn’t because those people like to hear themselves talk, although some do, it’s because we need the channels clear to give orders as things progress. Hard to tell someone to get out of the fire, cast a battle-rez, pick up the mob that got away, or switch dps targets when people are chattering away.
When typing in raid chat, keep your comments and talk about the raid. There should be no talking about how you need to get a new video card, which is the best, and how much they cost. Those are topics for other times. Raiding time is for raiding, not socializing.
Ninja Pulling
You have a fantastic build and the instance has been running smoothly...until now. There was a wipe or other circumstance that has required to group to pause. Someone grows impatient and...INCOMING! Suddenly, there are mobs running toward you. The group is not prepared. Someone may not be rezzed yet, or perhaps the group has no mana or low life. Maybe a member is AFK. Whether you wipe or barely survive, the group requires more time to recover from the ninja pull.
We can all become impatient. However, it is important to remember that ninja pulling will usually create more downtime than waiting patiently for your group to prepare. Basic etiquette requires us to wait for the designated puller to initiate an encounter. The puller pays attention to the group's life and mana status, and makes sure that all members are present before a pull.
AFK
The dreaded AFK. My personal pet peeve. There’s a time and a place for AFKs and it’s not during raids.
If a raiding session goes on long, the raid leader will call for periodic bio breaks. If a raid leader hasn’t called a break, then don’t go AFK.
There are times when you will have to go AFK; someone’s at the door, phone calls, one child cracked another upside the head with a lightsaber, wife aggro, and the house is on fire are all legitimate reasons to go AFK. But there is an etiquette to AFK as well.
First, when announcing you need to go AFK, give a reason. I’m not asking for your personal history or disgusting details like “I have explosive diarrhea”. I just need a legitimate reason for why you’re going. No reason at all makes it difficult to predict when you’ll be back.
Second, when announcing you need to go AFK, give a realistic time frame to the raid leader and make sure they acknowledge you before you AFK. For your information, “brb” is not a time frame! “One sec” is not a time frame! Give a realistic amount of time. It’s amazing how many “brb”s turn into 20 minute AFKs.
Third, you need to understand that if you are going to go AFK longer than 5 minutes, you absolutely must let the raid know so they can decide whether to replace you. Flasks, elixirs, food buffs, and other buffs are burning! You’re wasting valuable time and it isn’t just 5 minutes. It’s 5 minutes multiplied by the number of people in raid!!! Don’t be surprised or upset if you’re replaced or they killed the boss without you.
The following steps should help you minimize AFK time.
- Make sure you have enough time for a specific encounter.
- If you have real life responsibilities, be sure that you have either completed them, or can put them off until the run is complete.
- Get yourself a beverage and/or snack before you begin.
- If something else has your interest (a book, movie, etc), either decline the invitation or be sure you are willing to put it aside before you begin an instance.
Loot and Consideration
All greens gathered during the raid will go to the guild bank toward enchanting materials for enchants for core raider upgrades. Blue BoE items will go to the guild bank to be purchased by all members for alts. Epic BoE items will use EPGP for MAIN Spec only and must be instantly equipped upon receipt. Epic BoE items will not go to secondary specs, they will be deposited in the guild bank to be purchased for alternate specs or alts. BoP Epics will use EPGP for main and secondary, if no interest is to be had then it will be disenchanted and the materials placed in the guild bank for enchants for core raider upgrades.
Common Sense
Bottom line, if you think it wastes your time, don’t do that to others. Treat them the way you want to be treated. Use your common sense and if you don’t have any find someone that does and have him or her tell you what to do.
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