🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:42:14 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>Den 12-01-2014 23:30, Catriona R skrev:
>
>>> I give up doing LFRs unless its wednesday.  Third wing/first boss; a
>>> single wipe and 8 peeps left the raid...
>>
>> Ouch. I'm finally going through SoO for the first time this week (had
>> only done wing 1 before), and not much problems that way, thankfully.
>> Couple of wipes on some bosses but not usually more than a couple
>> leave, bigger problem is when tanks leave after the boss they
>> wanted... third wing tonight, both tanks left after first boss. One
>> dps produces a tank offspec and clears the trash for us, one tank
>> arrives soon after, so we kill 2nd boss that way (considering it took
>> a wipe before clearing, that was quite some time without 2nd official
>> tank), then the dpser who was a tank leaves... 20 mins of waiting
>> later, we finally get a new tank! Must've been 40 mins plus in the
>> queue...
>
>I have tried spending 2�-3 hours on a single wing without completing it. 
>  1 boss down, 5 peeps leaves, next boss, waiting for maybe 1-2 tanks 
>and 2 heals etc...  Last boss.  The raid fall apart due to low dps, low 
>healing or bad tanking from dpsers with tank offspec.  Requeue for the 
>last boss 1-2 days later.  Same scenario.
>I discussed this with my guildies recently.  And it seems that only 
>wednesdays and most thursdays are good for SoO/lfr.  Every lfr needs a 
>few heavy dps trucks and 1 experienced tank and those vanishes as they 
>usually also does flex and normal thursday and friday night until 
>they're vp capped.  Thats my - I hope - valid guess.

Sounds fairly likely, I was surprised to have so little trouble
running through on a weekend tbh! No more than 2 wipes on any boss,
despite not having really high-geared folk in tanking/healing, going
by healthpools. Thok the Bloodthirsty was possibly the toughestes but
we got him the 3rd time. Maybe it's just a different pool of players
involved (I see below you're Alliance, although I wouldn't expect that
big a diference between the factions), or maybe I was just lucky! Or
perhaps my high gear despite not knowing the encounters helped the
healing side lol; healing meters don't really tell you much, I know,
but I was consistently top of them, so I guess the actually good
healers had all been and done it earlier in the week/don't bother at
all any more.

>I wish you were ally.  My fairly small guild does flex raids for main 
>and alts with other small guilds and we usually manage to pick up 12-18 
>peeps every flex raid night 3 times a week).  Cozy and relaxing 
>atmosphere with a lot of mature +35y peeps.  It would have been a 
>pleasure to invite you. :)

Sounds a cool group, although most raidgroups want voice, which I
don't use, so I likely wouldn't be a fit for you anyway; I gave up
raiding with organised groups years ago because of that, nobody ever
wants me :-)

My first ally alt made it to 90 this week actually, but isn't likely
to gear up much; it's a rogue, and raids are so melee unfriendly that
I just don't fancy the stress of trying the LFR with him lol. Also
it's bloody hard to get anything off the Timeless isle on Alliance -
Draenor is just a little lopsided in population, so Celestials/Ordos
will never ever happen (I'll try the raid browser on Wednesday and see
if there's any chance at all of a crossrealm group), and I can't even
find the rares when timers don't work - there's just so few alliance
on the isle that nobody ever actually sees them so timers never get
updated. I have to go there when my bf is there on horde and look over
at his screen to get an idea what rares are due.....