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Organising and planning a raid

Grimthor at 04:39, 25 March 2005

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 It also helps to give two times in the raid notice - one time for when you want to start the raid, and one time for when people should login and start travelling.  This enables people who cannot make the earlier time to do their travelling and logout the night before at the raid site to avoid wasting time waiting for people to arrive.  But please be warned - the set-up phase of a raid is always going to take longer than anticipated, so please be patient, and don't fill the raid channel with chatter - it makes coordinating much more difficult.
-If you are relying on someone for advice on the raid, or on someone to do the pulling, it may also be worthwhile having a second chat channel for the leadership team of the raid. Depending <span class="plainlinks">[http://xstretchmarks.com/stretch-mark-removal/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">stretch mark removal</span>]</span> on the raid target and size of the raid, you could conceivably have the raid leader (you!), the puller, someone who knows the raid well and the main tank in this channel.
+If you are relying on someone for advice on the raid, or on someone to do the pulling, it may also be worthwhile having a second chat channel for the leadership team of the raid.  Depending on the raid target and size of the raid, you could conceivably have the raid leader (you!), the puller, someone who knows the raid well and the main tank in this channel.
 If you are participating in a raid, please try not to be late - people will understand, but it isn't fair to keep a number of people waiting for you.  If you can, try to get to the raid site in advance of the start time, as you will see there is much to do once everyone gets there!

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 It also helps to give two times in the raid notice - one time for when you want to start the raid, and one time for when people should login and start travelling.  This enables people who cannot make the earlier time to do their travelling and logout the night before at the raid site to avoid wasting time waiting for people to arrive.  But please be warned - the set-up phase of a raid is always going to take longer than anticipated, so please be patient, and don't fill the raid channel with chatter - it makes coordinating much more difficult.
-If you are relying on someone for advice on the raid, or on someone to do the pulling, it may also be worthwhile having a second chat channel for the leadership team of the raid.  Depending on the raid target and size of the raid, you could conceivably have the raid leader (you!), the puller, someone who knows the raid well and the main tank in this channel.
+If you are relying on someone for advice on the raid, or on someone to do the pulling, it may also be worthwhile having a second chat channel for the leadership team of the raid. Depending <span class="plainlinks">[http://xstretchmarks.com/stretch-mark-removal/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">stretch mark removal</span>]</span> on the raid target and size of the raid, you could conceivably have the raid leader (you!), the puller, someone who knows the raid well and the main tank in this channel.
 If you are participating in a raid, please try not to be late - people will understand, but it isn't fair to keep a number of people waiting for you.  If you can, try to get to the raid site in advance of the start time, as you will see there is much to do once everyone gets there!

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	This is the time to discuss strategy and have a debrief on what went well and what didn't. If you have any personal issues on individual performance, take it up in a constructive way in a private manner, not in /g. And finally, don't forget to thank each other for a fun time.		This is the time to discuss strategy and have a debrief on what went well and what didn't. If you have any personal issues on individual performance, take it up in a constructive way in a private manner, not in /g. And finally, don't forget to thank each other for a fun time.
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 First you need to decide where you want to raid.  I can't help you with that - choose somewhere you want to go see, or somewhere you need quests, or somewhere the items you want drop...
-Next you need to advertise your raid, and start recruiting.  You should create a [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?showforum=8 Meeting Place] thread about your raid, and a [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?act=calendar Calendar] entry.  Make sure people know about the raid in game also by using guild chat (but please don't let it become spam!) and directing them to the forums.  A day or two before your raid, speak to an officer and ask them to put it in the Guild Message of the Day (GMotD).
+Next you need to advertise your raid, and start recruiting.  You should create a thread about your raid in one of the Scheduling forums (for either Tichondrius or Stormrage) on the Basin's [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?showforum=38 General Boards], and a [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?act=calendar Calendar] entry.  Make sure people know about the raid in game also by using guild chat (but please don't let it become spam!) and directing them to the forums.  A day or two before your raid, speak to an officer and ask them to put it in the Guild Message of the Day (GMotD).
 In the meantime, try to find out about the target of the raid.  Or if you are raiding to explore, try not to find out about it!  But if the objective is exploration you should make this clear in the advertising for the raid so that people who want to whizz through and do quests are not disappointed.

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 There are a number of Basin resources that are available for planning and advertising raids, and I set out some of them below:
-[[Instance_guide_summary]] - gives pretty good guides to most of the instances in WoW<br>
+[[Instance Guide Summary]] - gives pretty good guides to most of the instances in WoW<br>
 [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/ The Basin WoW Forums] - especially the [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?showforum=8 Meeting Place]<br>
 [http://www.theamazonbasin.com/wow/forums/index.php?act=calendar The Basin WoW Calendar] - also see the excellent [[Calendar_Guide]]<br>

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 If you are participating in a raid, please try not to be late - people will understand, but it isn't fair to keep a number of people waiting for you.  If you can, try to get to the raid site in advance of the start time, as you will see there is much to do once everyone gets there!
-= Group-making and buffing =
+= Group-making =
 Once you are confident that everyone is on their way to, or at the raid site, you can start organising groups.  The Raid feature in WoW is particularly helpful in this regard, and you should get everyone invited to the raid group as early as you can.  This will enable you to experiment with raid groups by dragging and dropping, which is great.  It also gives everyone access to the /ra channel.
-Group composition is only important if you are doing something that involves more than one group.  Different raid leaders have different ways they prefer to set up the groups.  In WoW if everyone has the UI mod RaidBar, it becomes less important, but there are still advantages in having certain group make-ups.  For example, your main tank will need to have lots and lots of HP and AC, and at least one primary healer in his/her group.  What this means is that you may want to have a paladin in the MT group so that he benefits from the Paladin's auras, and also a Priest/Druid for healing.
+Group composition is only important if you are doing something that involves more than one group.  Different raid leaders have different ways they prefer to set up the groups.  In WoW if everyone has the UI mod RaidBar, it becomes less important, but there are still advantages in having certain group make-ups as follows:
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 = After the raid =

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-by [[User:Grimthor|Grimthor]] 22:03, 24 Mar 2005 (Eastern Standard Time)
+by [[User:Grimthor|Grimthor]] 22:03, 24 Mar 2005 (Eastern Standard Time) <br>
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-= Group-making =
+= Assembling your raid =
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+Once you are confident that everyone is on their way to, or at the raid site, you can start organising groups.  The Raid feature in WoW is particularly helpful in this regard, and you should get everyone invited to the raid group as early as you can.  This will enable you to experiment with raid groups by dragging and dropping, which is great.  It also gives everyone access to the /ra channel.
 = During the raid =

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 by [[User:Grimthor|Grimthor]] 22:03, 24 Mar 2005 (Eastern Standard Time)
-== Introduction ==
+__TOC__
 This guide is not intended to be a definitive "How To", but rather an introduction to some of my thoughts on leading and participating in raids. Please treat this in the spirit it is offered - it is intended to provide a framework to encourage you to think about raids and raiding, and how to lead and participate in raids.  And of course this has a natural slant towards raiding in a Basin context.
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-== Organising and planning a raid ==
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 The Basin is a group of people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds with a variety of real life commitments.  Raiding often involves planning around real life commitments in terms of when people can do it, and how long they can do it.  If you wish to organise a Basin raid, therefore, you would be well advised to start planning and recruiting for your raid several days in advance.  The beauty of the WoW instance system is that you can plan raids in advance, rather than having to move fast when you spot that a raid target is up as in most other games.
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 '''What is a raid?'''
-When I talk about raids, I mean any activity in a MMORPG that is undertaken by more than a single group.  In WoW the definition broadens to include any one-group instance run, and most PvP activities that are not just one-on-one skirmishes.  It's a somewhat nebulous definition, and I apologise for that, but it kinda needs to be!
+When I talk about raids, I mean any activity in a MMORPG that is undertaken by more than a single group.  In WoW the definition broadens to include any one-group instance run, and most PvP activities that are not just one-on-one skirmishes.  This guide has been written mostly from the point of view of PvE raids, but the general principles, I am sure, also apply to PvP.
 == Organising and planning a raid ==
 == Group-making ==