Post by Maestrell on Jun 11, 2009 17:57:24 GMT -5
This post was previously in 'Raid Discussion.'
callidusguildeq.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=raiding&action=display&thread=150
I posted it again to ensure that everyone has read it.
This thread is about raid must-haves, to do everything possible to ensure us a flawless victory with as few casualties as possible, so we can move up the ranks to where we need to be. While at the time we aren't doing bleeding edge SoD raids, there is no reason why we should run a slop-raid just because the content we are doing is relatively easy. I will post several things you must have to make sure we don't screw up. I will post more as they come to me:
1. Punctuality - BE ON TIME! Sometimes stuff does happen and we can't always expect every person at the raid to be there every single time - however, this does not mean we should habitually show up 20 minutes past the hour every single time. If this does happen then 5 minutes late turns into 10 minutes late, then 20 minutes late because we aren't buffed and ready to go until 9PM anyway. Pretty soon we are habitually starting an 8 PM raid at 10PM because nobody can get their lazy butts to show up on time.
If we are forming the raid at 8PM and I see you grinding in another zone expecting to show up to the raid at 8:30 DO NOT EXPECT TO GET DKP. Not only does it reflect bad on you and the guild as a whole, but it is disrespectful to me because I have to take time out of the raid to change the DKP dump file to add you because you didn't show up on time, which I will not do. So no DKP will be awarded if you are late, except in rare circumstances. BE ON TIME!
2.Chat windows - At no time do I want to hear 'I didn't see the **** message because of too much battle spam.' This is careless and lazy. If you screw up and the raid wipes because you are too lazy to open a chat window to keep your chat able to be clearly seen, you probably shouldn't be raiding. Please keep at least a MINIMUM of THREE chat windows open at all times, and I am being generous. You can filter out battle spam, rampage, enrage, assist messages in their own chat window. USE THEM. I won't go as far as to tell you where to put what but use your own discretion so you can see all raid messages clearly.
Here is a picture to help you see how to do it more clearly.
Right click where the arrow is pointing and click NEW CHAT WINDOW. You can move the window wherever you want to reorganize your UI. Notice this particular toon is currently using NINE chat windows. You probably don't need that many but at least 3.
3. Assist keys - At no time should you be engaging in battle by clicking on a mob manually. You should have keys assigned for targetting so you don't have to.
To set up an assist key:
You can do this by making a new hot key in your Socials. All you do is go to your 'Actions' box, (Alt-M) click on the 'Socials' tab within the box, and right click on a blank hot key.
EXAMPLE:
Line 1: /assist Maestrell
This will automatically change your current target to the target that Maestrell has targeted. Confirm the hot key and then you can hold and drag it to your hot key bar.
Also, this goes especially for crowd control toons, you should have a button to cycle through the nearest NPC's so you don't have to click on them manually, which can sometimes be a pain. Click Alt-O. Click on KEYS tab. Go to TARGET on the pull-down menu. Assign a button for 'Cycle through nearest NPCs.'
4. Clicky Shrink - This isn't quite as essential as other Must-haves, but this will become more essential when we have more people raiding. Shrink is nice to have when there are 50+ people piled on top of each other in a small area all killing the same target, and should reduce lag significantly. Clicky shrink also reduces the necessity of the shaman to jump from group to group just to shrink everyone. There are several items, one being Wand of Imperceptibility and the Earring of Diminutiveness (0.3 second cast time!) from the 68.4 mission. The gnomish shrinking device is also an option, although it's limited charges.
5. Pet Hold - If you are a pet class in a raid, you should have Pet Hold. NO EXCEPTIONS! If you don't have it get it now! If you are on the receiving end of an AE your pet will agro a mob before it gets to camp, and then guess who gets agro when the pet dies.... that's right, YOU! This can be especially disastrous if the mobs to be pulled haven't been split yet, and after YOU die they will come after the rest of the raid nearby. If you don't have it get it now! And LEARN HOW TO USE IT!
6. Radiant Cure - This is one of the most valuable AA's that give biggest bang for the buck. The first rank cures your GROUP of NINE COUNTERS of poison, disease, and curses. Get radiant cure 1 at the very least, if nothing else.
7. Corpse Consent - If you are dead there is a good chance there are several mobs hovering over your corpse. We want to keep you alive and in the zone, so we will be dragging you to camp to rez your corpse.
People (especially me) get ticked off when we have to wait for you to consent us to drag your corpse. Why? Two reasons:
* 1. Good chance the corpse dragger will get agro as well, and also die.
* 2. You are too lazy to AUTO consent the raid/group/guild so we don't have to wait to drag your corpse back to camp while you AFK to surf porn. Hit ALT-O and in the BOTTOM LEFT CORNER, click on Auto-consent group, raid, and guild. It only takes 2 seconds.
7. Enduring Breath - If you're raiding an underwater fight this is highly essential, especially since an Enduring Breath buff can be dispelled, even self cast. Get a worn EB or Faerune item, or put some points into the AA.
8. Self Cast Invis - If you don't have innate invis (warrior, cleric, etc) you should carry clicky invis AT ALL TIMES. Get cloudy potions if nothing else. They are instant cast! If you're too poor to afford them, we can provide you with a stack or 2. If you see a message that your invis is wearing off you have plenty of time to click another potion. The time you save from avoiding the corpse run and making your group wait will pay it back a hundred fold. At no time should someone come back from the camp spot to invis you because your invis wore off. Keep several stacks of potions on hand at all times!
9. Chaotic Jester - NO JESTERS ON RAIDS EVER!
At no time during a raid should anyone be clicking a Chaotic Jester. EVER! These little pests are nothing more than annoying and don't really do anything beneficial for the raid when everyone is raid buffed, and just add extra lag being an extra entity to take up space. In addition, they cast grow (oh just what I want after I cast shrink!) and cast random illusions on people, which just add more confusion when you're expecting to see Big Bubba the ogre who needs a quick heal and the jester turned him into a 3 inch bug.
10. Audio Triggers - Audio triggers make it much easier to function without having to read anything at all and concentrate on more important matters - for example , you can set it to sound a bell every time your spell lands, and a 'splat' sound every time your spell is resisted (or an FD failure) without having to read it in the chat logs. You simply tell EQ to set off a sound every time it sees a particular string of text in the chat window ('has become ENRAGED'). You can find audio triggers by clicking on the big EQ button.
11. Heal Potions - What happens when you've gotten agro from the tank and are losing HP fast? You usually run around screaming OMGZ HEAL MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... **LOADING PLEASE WAIT**
This usually goes more so for non-healing classes but if the healer in your group is busy healing the tank (or has died, been silenced, out of mana, etc) or if have a nasty AE DoT on you, there is a good chance you will die. CARRY SOME POTIONS! They can be expensive but they are cheaper than a soulstone. The potions aren't meant to overcome a 12K quad but it might be just what you need to buy a second or two until a heal comes your way.
More to come!
callidusguildeq.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=raiding&action=display&thread=150
I posted it again to ensure that everyone has read it.
This thread is about raid must-haves, to do everything possible to ensure us a flawless victory with as few casualties as possible, so we can move up the ranks to where we need to be. While at the time we aren't doing bleeding edge SoD raids, there is no reason why we should run a slop-raid just because the content we are doing is relatively easy. I will post several things you must have to make sure we don't screw up. I will post more as they come to me:
1. Punctuality - BE ON TIME! Sometimes stuff does happen and we can't always expect every person at the raid to be there every single time - however, this does not mean we should habitually show up 20 minutes past the hour every single time. If this does happen then 5 minutes late turns into 10 minutes late, then 20 minutes late because we aren't buffed and ready to go until 9PM anyway. Pretty soon we are habitually starting an 8 PM raid at 10PM because nobody can get their lazy butts to show up on time.
If we are forming the raid at 8PM and I see you grinding in another zone expecting to show up to the raid at 8:30 DO NOT EXPECT TO GET DKP. Not only does it reflect bad on you and the guild as a whole, but it is disrespectful to me because I have to take time out of the raid to change the DKP dump file to add you because you didn't show up on time, which I will not do. So no DKP will be awarded if you are late, except in rare circumstances. BE ON TIME!
2.Chat windows - At no time do I want to hear 'I didn't see the **** message because of too much battle spam.' This is careless and lazy. If you screw up and the raid wipes because you are too lazy to open a chat window to keep your chat able to be clearly seen, you probably shouldn't be raiding. Please keep at least a MINIMUM of THREE chat windows open at all times, and I am being generous. You can filter out battle spam, rampage, enrage, assist messages in their own chat window. USE THEM. I won't go as far as to tell you where to put what but use your own discretion so you can see all raid messages clearly.
Here is a picture to help you see how to do it more clearly.
Right click where the arrow is pointing and click NEW CHAT WINDOW. You can move the window wherever you want to reorganize your UI. Notice this particular toon is currently using NINE chat windows. You probably don't need that many but at least 3.
3. Assist keys - At no time should you be engaging in battle by clicking on a mob manually. You should have keys assigned for targetting so you don't have to.
To set up an assist key:
You can do this by making a new hot key in your Socials. All you do is go to your 'Actions' box, (Alt-M) click on the 'Socials' tab within the box, and right click on a blank hot key.
EXAMPLE:
Line 1: /assist Maestrell
This will automatically change your current target to the target that Maestrell has targeted. Confirm the hot key and then you can hold and drag it to your hot key bar.
Also, this goes especially for crowd control toons, you should have a button to cycle through the nearest NPC's so you don't have to click on them manually, which can sometimes be a pain. Click Alt-O. Click on KEYS tab. Go to TARGET on the pull-down menu. Assign a button for 'Cycle through nearest NPCs.'
4. Clicky Shrink - This isn't quite as essential as other Must-haves, but this will become more essential when we have more people raiding. Shrink is nice to have when there are 50+ people piled on top of each other in a small area all killing the same target, and should reduce lag significantly. Clicky shrink also reduces the necessity of the shaman to jump from group to group just to shrink everyone. There are several items, one being Wand of Imperceptibility and the Earring of Diminutiveness (0.3 second cast time!) from the 68.4 mission. The gnomish shrinking device is also an option, although it's limited charges.
5. Pet Hold - If you are a pet class in a raid, you should have Pet Hold. NO EXCEPTIONS! If you don't have it get it now! If you are on the receiving end of an AE your pet will agro a mob before it gets to camp, and then guess who gets agro when the pet dies.... that's right, YOU! This can be especially disastrous if the mobs to be pulled haven't been split yet, and after YOU die they will come after the rest of the raid nearby. If you don't have it get it now! And LEARN HOW TO USE IT!
6. Radiant Cure - This is one of the most valuable AA's that give biggest bang for the buck. The first rank cures your GROUP of NINE COUNTERS of poison, disease, and curses. Get radiant cure 1 at the very least, if nothing else.
7. Corpse Consent - If you are dead there is a good chance there are several mobs hovering over your corpse. We want to keep you alive and in the zone, so we will be dragging you to camp to rez your corpse.
People (especially me) get ticked off when we have to wait for you to consent us to drag your corpse. Why? Two reasons:
* 1. Good chance the corpse dragger will get agro as well, and also die.
* 2. You are too lazy to AUTO consent the raid/group/guild so we don't have to wait to drag your corpse back to camp while you AFK to surf porn. Hit ALT-O and in the BOTTOM LEFT CORNER, click on Auto-consent group, raid, and guild. It only takes 2 seconds.
7. Enduring Breath - If you're raiding an underwater fight this is highly essential, especially since an Enduring Breath buff can be dispelled, even self cast. Get a worn EB or Faerune item, or put some points into the AA.
8. Self Cast Invis - If you don't have innate invis (warrior, cleric, etc) you should carry clicky invis AT ALL TIMES. Get cloudy potions if nothing else. They are instant cast! If you're too poor to afford them, we can provide you with a stack or 2. If you see a message that your invis is wearing off you have plenty of time to click another potion. The time you save from avoiding the corpse run and making your group wait will pay it back a hundred fold. At no time should someone come back from the camp spot to invis you because your invis wore off. Keep several stacks of potions on hand at all times!
9. Chaotic Jester - NO JESTERS ON RAIDS EVER!
At no time during a raid should anyone be clicking a Chaotic Jester. EVER! These little pests are nothing more than annoying and don't really do anything beneficial for the raid when everyone is raid buffed, and just add extra lag being an extra entity to take up space. In addition, they cast grow (oh just what I want after I cast shrink!) and cast random illusions on people, which just add more confusion when you're expecting to see Big Bubba the ogre who needs a quick heal and the jester turned him into a 3 inch bug.
10. Audio Triggers - Audio triggers make it much easier to function without having to read anything at all and concentrate on more important matters - for example , you can set it to sound a bell every time your spell lands, and a 'splat' sound every time your spell is resisted (or an FD failure) without having to read it in the chat logs. You simply tell EQ to set off a sound every time it sees a particular string of text in the chat window ('has become ENRAGED'). You can find audio triggers by clicking on the big EQ button.
11. Heal Potions - What happens when you've gotten agro from the tank and are losing HP fast? You usually run around screaming OMGZ HEAL MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... **LOADING PLEASE WAIT**
This usually goes more so for non-healing classes but if the healer in your group is busy healing the tank (or has died, been silenced, out of mana, etc) or if have a nasty AE DoT on you, there is a good chance you will die. CARRY SOME POTIONS! They can be expensive but they are cheaper than a soulstone. The potions aren't meant to overcome a 12K quad but it might be just what you need to buy a second or two until a heal comes your way.
More to come!
