10-14-2005, 03:55 PM
Fridays would not work for me. I'm not giving up my runs on Terenas. Of course I won't be around tonight anyway it appears but if you did a Wednesday run I would probably be able to come, if I wasn't totally raid fried.
I'm happy the alliance is raiding so much but it's getting harder for me to 5 man and lower instance raid. I either have to compete with a 40 or 20 man raid or go at odd hours. It's just one of the problems of our group trying to be everything for everyone.
Of course there are days where I know that with my condition going someplace, even in an avarice group won't work for me unless it's mostly people I know. You may have noticed I wasn't on TS most of raid last night and I was pretty silent in chat most of the time.
Anyway back to the subject at hand. I would have no problems on a continuation or a fresh start, or alternating a fresh vs a continue.
I also have no problems with an early Tuesday run though again I'm not saying I'm going to be there all the time. Just like I'm not always going to be there for MC or Ony (even though I have been so far).
As for group mix, I think CC is being emphasized more than it might need to be. If your tanks are used to holding more than one mob I believe the trash mobs in ZG can be dual tanked if the raid shows enough discipline. Holding an additional mob against just healing is not all that hard to do if you are used to it. Heck if you give the tank a little prep time they can hold 2 or 3 mobs to full blown AoE attacks. However if you spread damage over 3 or 4 mobs and expect the tank to hold it, no that won't happen. But if you let the tank grab 2 or 3 and only do damage to one of the mobs the tank should have no problems with it. Of course I've only seen the trolls and snakes trash mobs and very few boss encounters. I'm not saying that class mix isn't important and it's even more important when you are learning encounters to make it smoother but I also think that we can do things with sub par set-ups. Heck I think we could kill Lucy and Mags in MC with 25-30 people right now as well. We've taken Garr with just 2 warlocks and 6 warriors using others to offtank and had we had enough DPS we might have done it with 2 locks and 5 warriors and only 33 people.
I'm happy the alliance is raiding so much but it's getting harder for me to 5 man and lower instance raid. I either have to compete with a 40 or 20 man raid or go at odd hours. It's just one of the problems of our group trying to be everything for everyone.
Of course there are days where I know that with my condition going someplace, even in an avarice group won't work for me unless it's mostly people I know. You may have noticed I wasn't on TS most of raid last night and I was pretty silent in chat most of the time.
Anyway back to the subject at hand. I would have no problems on a continuation or a fresh start, or alternating a fresh vs a continue.
I also have no problems with an early Tuesday run though again I'm not saying I'm going to be there all the time. Just like I'm not always going to be there for MC or Ony (even though I have been so far).
As for group mix, I think CC is being emphasized more than it might need to be. If your tanks are used to holding more than one mob I believe the trash mobs in ZG can be dual tanked if the raid shows enough discipline. Holding an additional mob against just healing is not all that hard to do if you are used to it. Heck if you give the tank a little prep time they can hold 2 or 3 mobs to full blown AoE attacks. However if you spread damage over 3 or 4 mobs and expect the tank to hold it, no that won't happen. But if you let the tank grab 2 or 3 and only do damage to one of the mobs the tank should have no problems with it. Of course I've only seen the trolls and snakes trash mobs and very few boss encounters. I'm not saying that class mix isn't important and it's even more important when you are learning encounters to make it smoother but I also think that we can do things with sub par set-ups. Heck I think we could kill Lucy and Mags in MC with 25-30 people right now as well. We've taken Garr with just 2 warlocks and 6 warriors using others to offtank and had we had enough DPS we might have done it with 2 locks and 5 warriors and only 33 people.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.