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Raids……..Raids……Raids






At this point in my endgame pursuit of gear, the best place to get that gear would be Raids. But here is the problem I have with raids…



PUGS SUCK BALLZZZZ



I don't care what raid your in, but if your not in a guild with 300 lvl geared 80s that all know what they are doing, trying to pull a raid together is about as much fun as suicide.



For example the bane of raid groups is finding: Heals, 2-3 tanks depending, and DPS that know how to DPS. Once you do get a group together, 80% of the time the people in the raid have no idea what they are doing. Don’t take the time to look up the fights online if they have never done them, and then when 1 person dies, which tends to happen from time to time, EVERYONE LEAVES, as if they joined a lame 5 man heroic which takes no skill to do.



Blizzard, fix your raid system! There are lvl requirments to get into Instances, there should be gear requirements to get into raids. There is a LFG that works alright for instances, why not make something easy to use for raids? If ppl leave early, as in within 5 mins of the raid starting, then they should be blocked from joining another Raid for an hour.



Figure it out Blizz

Well, we started a guild back in November with me and a couple of friends from College. Needless today we were quite the partiers “back in the day” and we wanted something that represented a place and time. We chose the name ….if you don’t know what that means, plz don’t think about it for too long!...






Anyway it was more of a joke at the time, and we were all thinking to ourselves… maybe we should just can this carnival and join a REAL guild.



Then I had a great idea…lets just ask everyone we see today to join our guild that is not already in a guild, and maybe they will join. Granted we are totally LF quantity and not quality here, but I mean the guild was a jok3 to begin with right..lol



Update…



In 2 days we jumped from a 10 man guild to a 70 man guild. Sweet! Its strange getting on and there are just all these ppl on…wow we are totally a l3git population now..lol

Someone e-mailed me not knowing how to leave comments on my blog....


okay here is how you do it..lol


See th big number above the blog title? click on it that will let you comment. if its a "0" it means that so far there are no comments....Could i fix this? yes probably, but I dont have time to dick with it sorry

In the constant struggle to improve my very much depressing, sob story of DPS I've been playing around with spell rotation and trinkets....

For the last  several lvls...lets say from 65-80 my main spell sequence was mostly habit. VT,DP,MB,SW:D,SW:P,MF ect......

I always felt that my DPS was pathetic and sad...and it was I'll admit.....

After spending WAY tooo much wasted time at work browsing various DPS blog, I desided to play around with my spell rotation with this being the new rotation:
DP,VT,MB,MF,SW:P,MF(2 ticks),MB,VT ect......

Basically I came to the conclusion that 1 SW:D=1MB, 2 ticks MF= 1 MB, 2 ticks MF > 1SW:D with global cooldown and a pause in spell tick time with SW:D

Result....

200+ DPS to stats

Pays to experiment

Basically I throwout the basic opening DP/VT/MB, MF for the remainder of the 5 stacks to Shadow weaving, then SW:P, I have time for 2 thicks of MF before CD on MB is up, which is milaseconds before the CD for VT is up, then just MF until whatever cooldown is up and repeat as needed.

I've also started just using the crap out of shadowfiend, treating it like a DOT I can use once every 2 mins instead of manabattery. By the time I start really having mana issues the CD is up and I can use it again anyway, plus I get a scary looking DOT that freaks out all the Huntards in the raid.

I just found using SW:D outside of running around was eating up a few ticks that I could have used for more DPS speed vs wait for another CD...

yay SP!!!!!!