@HolyWarrior: Yeah, next time “damn the torpedos, full-speed ahead”. Though I’m still hesitant about CoD. The Nightbane fight is one where it’s better to do gimpy DPS than to pull aggro. Having CoD go off at the wrong time is just -asking- for a raid wipe. (much like the raid-wipe caused by Lilac by CoDing Netherspite at the wrong time).

On the Illhoof fight, I -like- seeding everything.. I think it causes a-lot- more damage than I’d get from just seeding Illhoof. That said, having a destruction spec’d warlock use hellfire between the gates seemed very easy.

Also, on Illhoof, I seed him not the imps and rotate in some Dark Pacts and Life Taps. That way there is no frantic re-targetting you can just sit there spamming 2 or 3 buttons and a quick SB or two on the chains when they come.

I can totally empathise with you about taking Taita into Kara, I totally hate taking HolyWarrior in. It seems so totally pointless when all his gear upgrade come from SSC/TK/MH and BT. The only thing he really needs from there is a tanking shield and maybe Moroes Pocket Watch!

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Browsing the WWS report, I do see some things that your Hunters can do to help DPS a little bit. Taking the Curator kill fight for example….

Hunter Kill Command not being used. Krullwyn had 37 crits and only fired off KC 9 times. Raouen had 49 crits and used Kill Command zero (0) times. This is a very big amount of damage just left sitting there on the table. Because of the way the cooldown works, its not usually a 1 to 1 match of KC for each crit, especially when things like Drums of Battle are in use, but it should be pretty close and definitely more than zero. Perhaps ask the hunters to install Critical Alert addon which will notify them of crits so they can more easily know when to trigger Kill Command.

Additionally, Raouen’s pet did not use any special attacks such as claw, bite, or gore during the fight. Even though he does not appear to be a Beast Master spec, his pet can still be contributing much more damage to the raid by training in and activating an appropriate special attack.

And one more for the record…the fight lasted over 7 minutes. Krullwyn only used Bestial Wrath twice during the fight. On a 2 minute cooldown, I’d expect to see 4 BW’s during the fight (one at the opening, at the 2 minute mark, 4 minute mark, and 6 minute mark). You invested many talent points to achieve that 41-point ability, so you owe it to your raid to use it. This is some big damage left sitting there for the taking.

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Don’t burn yourself out. Im sure i got that advice from you too but you should be able to raid on your Warlock with other people picking up the slack being accountable to show up for the raids and as healers. I knew we had same problems with my last guilds as well with healers or them not showing up.

Pally healing is what it is. I think that in 5-mans and Heroics I actually have it a little bit easier than Shaman healers. I have to decide who doesn’t live because I can’t heal everyone.. you on the other hand have to try and heal everyone and hope the healing is enough to cover the tank. I dread AOE situations because there’s a good chance I won’t be able to get a heal off on everyone before I have to go back to the Tank. I think you’re doing a fantastic job and aren’t giving yourself enough credit.

It’s joked that pally healing is two button healing.. and to some extent that’s true. There’s not a lot of variety. The biggest choice for a fight is “which aura should I run?” other than that it’s flash, flash, flash, Holy Light, flash, cleanse, flash. Every fight looks the same. Hell, my targets don’t even change.

With Lilac there’s a lot more variety. I’m having to think about it and make choices depending on the circumstances. Which curse? which dot? should I dot everything? Do I have enough time for a dot before the mob dies? It’s just more dynamic. And yes.. that’s making it more fun.

I agree with you that I’m unsure what to do about Erasmmus. He doesn’t seem willing to change and doesn’t seem willing to take any suggestions. Gaelen looks a little easier to work with. In all I don’t think they’re bad additions.. but really we have to get to know them before we can easily work with them.

It’s like knowing that you tip-toe around gear discussions with you and your wife….. or always look in guild roster to find out Grimr’s toon’s professions (before asking), or never ask Edith to mark when she’s tanking.. it’s all peculiar to the individual.. and we don’t know them yet.. so don’t know the hot buttons. Hopefully we’ll play with them enough to find (and thus avoid) the hot buttons.

- sigh -

I am sorry to cause everyone such grief. Erasmus and Gaelen are good friends of mine. But, in many ways they are stuck and I dont know how to unstick them.

Erasmus still has the mindset of the pre-BC days. He is a fire mage and convinced that they are the “Gods” of mages. He is constantly comparing himself to my own mage Daegothh(sadly he does not even come close). I honestly think his +spell hit is in the teens somewhere. But, he won’t be convinced that he needs it much higher. He’s stuck in a cycle of pyroblast, fireball, fireball, pull aggro, die. Honestly, I’m kinda at my wits end with him and I wish he’d move on to another character.

You are right about Gaelen, he has no instance or raid experience. Group dynamic is virtually unknown to him. He grew up on a PVP server and transfered at lvl 65 or so. All he knows of the game is solo work and getting ganked. It took me forver to convince him that the blueberry is his worst demon pet. Anyway, he seems to listen and is very interested in adapting to the guild. There is hope for him. I am very grateful to you Nibuca for taking the time to tutor him.

Oh, and his mic thing should be fixed soon. From what I understand he had driver problems.

As for myself… If you dont want to heal again I am fine with it, and I will back you up. However, its kinda hard to live in your shadow, you are a great healer and pally healing is such that you can really focus on your target and keep them alive. With my shaman I know I can blanket heal everyone but I feel pressed when I have to concentrate on one person. I honestly dont know why this is with buffed healing of almost +2000.

Leo

You are right, your whole dps-department sucked at that evening…especially your hunters. I experienced those horrible Kara nights myself so I feel with you ^^

I looked through your WWS report and wanted to give some advices to Krullwyn.

Your MM shouldnt outdps your BM. What I can see form your WWS your MM did a solid job if he is mostly blue with some Kara epics.

Your BM hunter seems to try to get into a 3:2 rotation (cause more steady shots than autoshots) but with a horrible dps output. He uses is Pet not enough. Pet DPS should be about al least 25-30% from his DPS an he should try just one speacial shot (steady, arcane or multishot) between his autoshots and try to avoid clipping his steadys into his autos. With that and if he is 50:50 blue/epic his DPS should see a sighnificant boost.

If he is willing to learn more about BM Hunters just tell him about bigredkitty.net

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I’m still sussing my lock’s place in the group.

With Gaelentu, he can still have a personality if he lets himself open up and at least respond with chat and be social outside of raids. I myself am the “don’t have a mic” type because of not really wanting to use it but still get myself out there with the rest of everybody by making sure to ask questions and most of all have fun with raiding!