Terenas 2/24

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What I liked about the run I went on Wednesday night to ZG with Keepers of The Dusk, was how they assigned sheep/CC targets. The person who was in charge of setting up the pulls would simply say the name of the character through Vent (it would be TS for us), and that player would assist him to get his CC target, and then he'd move to the next, etc. The trick, is making sure everyone in the raid is paying attention, and is focused so we could move forward. Also, they allowed 3-4 AKF's at a time when the raid was pulling trash mobs, as it didn't take the whole raid to handle trash mobs. Only a couple of times would we stop completely to allow bio breaks, etc. As a result, we were able to down 5 bosses in something like 4 hours, including an encounter they had never tried before. The tank swapping on the trash mobs also helped keep it moving. Once CC targets were assigned, then the main tank would pull, and at 2 sunders, the raid would begin DPS. The second tank also waited for the two sunders, but once the target was at about 40% health, the second tank would go break the next CC target, usually one a druid had hibernated, and began locking it down. That way, he had 2 sunders on that target by the time the raid was done killing the first target. Once the first target was down, the main tank would then help with DPS until 40%, and then he'd go break the next CC'd target. As a result, we didn't really us a Main Assist, as we assisted the tanks. I think we as a group are so used to using a MA that we may want to keep that, but I did like the pace at which the raid was able to move that way - assign CC targets, and then follow the tanks, which alternated their tanking duties every other mob. We had very few problems of DPS classes, or clothies having aggro, except on the big AoE type situations, or where we had a number of spiders running around, etc. All things considered, the raid paid attention, followed instructions, avoided alot of needless chatter on Vent, and we kept moving. I think the big key was having everyone on Vent. I know our previous runs with LS has had a number of people either unable or unwilling to get on TS, and I think to be effective as a group, we'll want to do what we can to fix that. Just my thoughts on what was a very successful ZG run Wednesday night, that I was priviledged to be a part of.