Tales of the Horde

Background

To change up a weekly group of balanced questers on Stormrage, we migrated the group to Tichondrius and decided on a gimick: all one class (inspired by The Volvo Project). And what better class to concentrate on than the jack-of-all-trades Shaman? A few strategic discussions later, Tales of the Horde began to take shape.

After progressing through the initial growing stages, the team made a decision to focus on instances where possible. This page reflects that focus.

In its current incarnation, there are five specific roles defined on the team:

Tales of the Horde

Role	Character	Player	Notes
Primary Tank	Jaco	Alan	Enhancement-heavy, a bit of Elemental
Primary Healer	Pauco	SnowDog	All restoration, heading to NS first
fill in	Fako	Magimac
fill in	Cracko	Sosostress
fill in	Belcka	DarkMoonRising

Scheduling

The team meets Monday nights between 5:30 and 6:00 server time (8:30 - 9:00 Eastern). They usually close down by 8 PM server time.

Instance Planning

Scheduling and planning for the next instance in sequence is done here.

Next instance: Wailing Caverns. Started but not completed. By the time we go back, we will be all L20, giving us access to a new shock, a travel form, and a more efficient heal. Ought to have no problems!

Tales of the Past

The group quickly ran through the first dozen levels before conquering Ragefire Chasm. The biggest lesson learned in RFC is that a team of four is much much weaker than a group of five. When doing normal questing or grinding, we'll sometimes play when a teammate cannot make it. Instance runs just can't handle this change, however.

In running Wailing Caverns we learned that we need Tremor Totem running when fighting Druids and that someone must always run Stoneskin. Staying together and avoiding accidental aggro is obviously key, and we continue to improve :).

Strategy and Build Discussion

Primary Healer build at L41. Goal is to reach NS as soon as possible then go back for Mana Tide totem. Comments welcome.