Strategems, Paradigms, and Gettin Sht Done
July 8th, 2011
One thing I’d like to reiterate here, as we begin working on heroic modes.
Please feel free to comment and bring things up. I do not want to see anyone feel as though ideas are simply shot down for no particular reason. Everyone is given voice chat for a reason, and that is to communicate your ideas and thoughts. There are, however, times and places to bring new ideas up and times that it simply should not be done. Simply put, if we say ok enough shut it lets go, that doesn’t necessarily mean your idea is “bad” or anything, it’s just we have to utilize the raiding time on pulls. That means you should either use the melee channel, or the forums to express concerns and strategies. If something is pressing or you feel it would be quicker to explain on voice, say so- ask to hop into a different channel with people and express your thoughts.
MB is a guild of generally considerate and nice people, even though we act like total dicks most of the time. Pretty much what I’m saying is, nobody in the guild should have all the answers or ideas, and I’d like to see more input in relevant places (forums, melee chat, etc). Even simple threads like “I have trouble with x.” is fine, maybe someone had the same trouble and did something to fix it.
Let’s try to put a bit more into raiding so we can get a bit more out of it. We had a great first week, but now we need to continue that push. I know we’re capable of it.
Frlnds
June 21st, 2011
Yes, it’s not out yet. So that means we should be looking at the bosses and being completely aware of the strats of the new bosses. I have looked around on the internet for GOOD videos (vent left on, or instructional/descriptive and not 20 minutes of HEY FIRELANDS WAS LAGGY GUYS IT WAS LAGGY AND THIS IS THE PTR AND IT WAS LAGGY) because I think we can all value our time collectively. That means I would humbly expect that you watch each of them, possibly even a few times. I did not find any Majordomo Staghelm or Baleroc videos that were really all that informative, but there are plenty of kill videos with music over them -_-
If you find anything useful about a particular boss, please share your information in any of the avenues we have available and I will add it to the basics thread if applicable.
I fully expect melee to be aware of what our responsibilities are and look forward to us handling the fights well. Lore has already said we’re looking at week 2 heroics, which is an easy order if everyone puts in an hour or two this week on simple research videos.
Ladyboy Sinestra has Two Balls
June 13th, 2011
Sinestra balls. There’s some confusion about this, so here it is boiled down.
Two balls spawn. Note where both are. One of two things will happen:
Is it near enough to me to pick me for a target? (about 15 yards)
Yes: Get to the southern side of the ball, not between the two balls (laser!)
No: Move forward to avoid being clipped by the laser. (move back to max melee distance when you have completed this)
At the very least you can look one direction. If you can know there’s a ball on top of you and there’s absolutely no ball to your left- then it’s to your right, so act accordingly. The absolute knowledge of the location of the second ball is helpful but not required to perform this adequately- you just need to know if you’re the right or left ball. Every ball desires this.
Cho’gall Perishes?
June 2nd, 2011
So after Cho’gall’s death and a miserable effect of council wipes, I’d like to bring these points to focus on.
Getting hit by things on farm content is not good. That goes for anything really, though in particular Absolute Zero, (P2 Maloriak) and the fire circles/ignition on Magmaw. This leads to my next point, which is pushing DPS as hard as we can- Kiki had some interesting ideas on cho’gall which helped add DPS tremendously- (standing on Rick to dps the adds) there are lots of little positional things that can increase your uptime on the damage target which is really where your damage comes from, I think we can assume that we all know the damage rotations and such. Just keep bringing your A game to raids, and try and learn something every raid, even if it’s “farm” content.
So really it’s those two things-
- Don’t get hit by shit.
- Try and get more damage every fight.
Next up, Sinestra.
Cho’gall, not dying?
May 30th, 2011
As raiding requires people, I’m going to make a new post to iterate this fact.
Showing up to raiding is mandatory, and you will need to maintain a 90% attendance. If you get sat, you need to be available throughout the raid.
We’ve been pretty good about maintaining attendance, but just making it known. Obviously with a Federal Holiday we’re expecting some member decrease, but this is not a new thing right now.
See this post if you’re still confused.
Welcome, MB Melee!
May 29th, 2011
Hi there. This is now the page of MB Melee news and goals, and generally just to let everyone know what I’m thinking and what we can do to improve, or what we do well, or just random crap I come across. This is focused towards melee of course.
Just to jump straight in, I’d like to say thanks and grats to perfecting the Achieve-o-Tron interrupts. (That’s 2 weeks in a row now) Very nice work on that.
As we’re working on cho’gall, (and should be dead tomorrow) one of the things that has come to my attention is attendance. Post outs have been alright, but I’d much rather be in a place where I should be very surprised about a post out. Certainly you should be comfortable being able to post out of a raid, but I think for some people it has become a bit too comfortable. The best way to keep your raid spot is make it so I can’t replace you- or, be really good at whatever it is you need to be doing in a particular raid. If you’re having trouble doing some task, I can’t rely on you to do that, so that’s pushing everyone else to do more to compensate.
If you’re looking to get tips on anything “job” related, I heavily rely upon Power Auras to yell at me to do stuff. I can help with this if needed.
One other thing- if for some reason you are a raider (even recruit status) and do not have access to the raiding forums, let one of the officers know, that is where major strategy discussions should be taking place.