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As a tank, how do you start raiding?
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Monday
You could listen to trade chat, and when people start talking about needing a tank for BH, you could sign up.
One of the best ways though is to get in a guild.
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atomicwolf22
You could listen to trade chat, and when people start talking about needing a tank for BH, you could sign up.
One of the best ways though is to get in a guild.
This.
Also make sure that you have been in the raid a few times as a dps(or another toon) so that you know want is going on in the fight. I don't know how many times I have seen people that don't know to move during Fel Flames or some healers that don't know how to dispell and wipe the raid.
If you don't want to wait then atleast goggle the boss fights so that you can see wants going to happen.
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Runethorn
In patch 4.2, which is likely to arrive this month, Blizzard are introducing their new Encounter Journal feature (I can't recall the exact name). It provides an overview of all the important mechanics of a boss fight - what the boss is going to do, when, and tips on which things to interrupt and so on.
Based on the preview screenshots, it looks like this will be a really nice tool for taking the edge off an unfamiliar fight. Of course, you can't beat experience, but I'm sure this will be a big help to you, at least with this part :
So I'm just wondering how I would go about getting into raiding
w/o knowing the content
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Post by
Aris
Find a raiding guild.
Read boss strategies.
Watch boss strategy video's. I think tankspot has every raid boss in the game on a youtube video.
Read (yourclasshere) posts on EJ and tankspot on proper ability priorities, talent specs, glyph requirements, stat priorities etc etc.
You should understand your class inside and out.
I've been playin this game since UBRS was the only raid content in wow. Been tanking since BC dropped. Blizzard reuses content A LOT. I don't know how often i see the same things over and over. Don't stand in things, point bosses away from the raid, point dragons sideways so the raid faces their side, interrupt spell casts. Those 4 things are probably 80% of every raid boss encounter.
Post by
Emillex
Get a bunch of addons as well.
Grid with aggro watch on it to show who to taunt off of.
Omen threat meter to know who to give vigilence.
Deadly Boss Mods for timers in an encounter like Fel fire flames for BH
A Cooldown timer for your Shield Wall, Last Stand, and your Raid Wall
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Porcell
So your solution is to assemble a 10 man guild? Looking at my server, there are already like 40 ten-man guilds at various stages of completion.
My suggestion is to not aim high, but aim for one of the shoddier guilds on your server. If you apply to a top 5 guild, with your gear and experience, you have nearly zero chance of getting in. Look around and saddle up to a guild that looks like it's more your speed and just get your feet wet there.
Putting together a BH yourself is a good idea though. It's easy enough and is fully puggable. And once 4.2 hits and the content gets the nerf, expect to see full pugs for BoT and BWD to show up in Trade.
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minad
Its easyer now a day. Like in 3.2 patch it was harder i have heared. In 3.3 it started to come easyer. Its just do random hc and then get the gears and then go to easyest raids. Its the normal old formula.
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Arothand
The problem with joining a "scrub guild" to get some experience is twofold:
A) You won't get much of anywhere, because you're in a lousy ("scrub") guild.
B) You can be marred as a bad player just by virtue of being in said scrub guild, so no good guild will take you because it's "He runs with <Scrub Guild>, so he must be a baddie."
Really this is the issue with raiding in general that I've found, and especially as a tank - you are basically screwed because without experience you can't get into a good raiding guild, but you can't raid well unless you're in a good raiding guild; you'll likely just get frustrated because your scrub guild can't down V&T or Omnotron or maybe Maloriak or Atramedes, and as a result you'll be laughed at by any serious guild for only being a couple of bosses in. It's a double-edged sword. Unless you almost constantly guild hop the minute you hit a wall in a bad guild, you'll never progress AWAY from bad guilds, because you aren't progressed enough for the good guilds to even consider you; the only guilds that will take you are the bad guilds, and because they're bad guilds you'll never rise much further - maybe a boss here or there but never enough to make the leap from a bad guild to one of the better guilds.
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