Raid Performance: Seeking Help

Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 5:02 pm. 1 comment

This post has two parts. Today I’m going to talk about my guild situation. Next post, I’m going to go over some tips on how to maximize DPS as Rogue during raids.

Our guild has had a lot of changes lately. Much like Dinaer’s situation over at Forever A Noob, my guild faced a merger situation. We had about 25-35 raiders, but due to scheduling, we often only had 20 people at the start of our 25-man raids. We would usually fill the remaining spots with whoever we could find. This resulted in taking some characters that might not have fully been ready for the raid encounters, gear-wise or play-wise.

Now, let me just say real quick that we’ve never considered ourselves a hardcore guild, but more like a casual raiding guild. Most would say that is an oxymoron and we’ve been fighting with progression for a long time. However, with the end of Burning Crusade looming with the coming of Wrath of the Lich King, my guild wants to see all of the Burning Crusade before we move on.

Another guild was in the same spot as us and their guild leadership had left the game leaving them somewhat crippled. After a lengthy process, we accepted their members into our guild. We allowed them to bring a percentage of their DKP with them as part of their collective bargaining.

Separate, we were both making slow and steady progress. Together we are dropping new bosses on our first night of attempts. In the last two weeks, Aegis Hestia has dropped four new bosses: Magtheridon, Karathress, Leotheras, and Solarian.

We have gone from having 17 people signing up for raids to having 30 people sign up for raids. This leads to a serious issue as we now have to make a choice of how to fairly rotate members through raids while not alienating our player base.

We chose to restructure our guild leadership at the time of the merger and assign officers to oversee the four roles in raids: melee DPS, ranged DPS, tanking and healing.

I am currently the Melee DPS Officer. It is each of our responsibilities to shepherd those in our group to help them improve, to advise the raid leader in determining what balance we need in a raid group, and to help decide what members to include in the raid based on raid success, member performance, a member’s previous sit outs, etc. The goal is to move the guild forward and ensure every member that wants to raid gets a chance.

Most of our melee DPS are veteran players. I have 5-7 Rogues including Valenna, 3-4 Feral Druids, 1 Retribution Paladin (let’s not get into it), 2 DPS Warriors, and an Enhancement Shaman.

One of my Rogues is relatively new to the game, and understandably has been ending up lower on the damage meters. While she has been working hard to improve her gear, she also asked me if she was doing anything wrong. Tomorrow I’ll share the suggestions I gave her. Because of her hard work, I’m happy to announce that on our last Void Reaver fight her performance was fantastic.

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