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Nope. Under the proposed system, you'd earn 50 dkp a week at 100% attendance and lose 10% (So 45 if you don't spend it). The decay is to encourage spending DKP NOW. You essentially have more purchasing power if you don't hoard. This will ensure that the raid gets geared up more equally overall. Instead of one person hoarding DKP for that one killer item, he's encouraged to spend it or see diminishing returns on his DKP accrual. If a new member joined the raid and bought NOTHING, he'd have a max of something like 130 DKP. A veteran member would most likely be around 300 DKP or so. Vets still have purchasing power but it's not too punishing to new members. The Decay numbers are also open to debate. 10% was a random number I picked out. Would 5% seem more fair? Hence the iron man bonus. A second timer is to be run starting at 8PM sharp (Or 7:45 or 7:30 or whatever we decide our start time is). When that timer is started, a snapshot of the current raid + wait list is taken. Once the iron man timer is stopped at the end of the raid, another snapshot is taken and compared to the first snapshot. Anybody who was in the raid in both snapshots (From beginning to end) gets an extra 10 dkp. So if you're there the whole time but late, you get 15 DKP. If you're there the whole time, you get 25 dkp. Each character's alts are registered to their main. If you bring an alt into a raid, you collect the DKP for your main and can the use the DKP on your main. I forgot to include it in the rules above, but I want for alt main spec gear to be equivalent to main off spec gear.

This is the first week so we are being lenient with everyone when it comes to Gear, Gems, Enchants etc. This upcoming week is when we expect everyone to really hammer out the heroic grind and get raid ready. Most consumables are absurdly expensive and we don't expect everyone to spend 5k on a meta gem that will cost 500g next week, for example. Just do whatever you can to get raid ready and use common sense. Coming to raid ungemmed is unacceptable because green gems are super cheap and you can easily use those. Same thing with cheap enchants. But meta gems on the other hand were 4k last I checked, which seems outrageous. We are going to decide what size raid we run this week depending on how many people are actually fully raid ready and how many healers we got. I know that we have enough tanks but having enough healers is a bit more concerning. Myself, Eternal and Thundere are ready but Jlogg and Deft just hit 90 and I'm not sure if Deft is even raiding with us. Most of the other healers at 90 (Lyshani, Iscruff) won't be raiding with us. I'm not worried about boss guides because we'll figure it out as we go. I start worrying about guides when we reach heroics because the mechanics are so punishing but with normal modes, we're perfectly capable of figuring it out ourselves. There will be a DKP post later today covering the rules of our DKP system as well so look out for that.

Thanks Mastric! Can we possibly get our badass logo at the top left restored as well?

Always thinking ahead! You should ask us about this in a week or two when everyone is done leveling, in my opinion.

I'll tell him to get right on it!!

Thanks bash. And yeah, I was thinking the same.

Howdy peeps. My dad just got admitted to the hospital so I will be visiting him tomorrow. Hopefully it's nothing serious but I definitely need to go visit him. Additionally, patch days are always a bad time to raid, and xpac patches are the WORST patch days since so much changes. I would recommend that you guys all just log in tomorrow, reconfigure addons, get used to new rotations etc. If the other officers want to go ahead and raid DS, I respect their decision, but I wont be on for raid. I will most likely be on, but closer to 10ish. I will be on Wednesday though so unless the other officers override my decision, we will raid on Wednesday instead.

Sweet! In case you miss the shoutbox link, see here for all multiboxing info: http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/36955-Newb-s-Guide-to-Multiboxing-Start-here-if-you-are-brand-new-to-Multiboxing

Blizzard has said in Blue Posts (Look it up, im lazy), that you CAN RAF to yourself, they don't care. It's not a violation of ToS or anything. As a matter of fact, when you send out RAF, you send it to an email. When you redeem, you log into a battle.net account (Or make one). You can use the same battle.net account that sent the RAF invite and you just get another wow account under your battle.net. BTW, wow is 75% off right now. In order to do RAF, you need to buy the WoW Battle Chest (Vanilla and BC) and WOTLK. It's $5 for each right now. You also have to pay the monthly fee but the first month that your RaF account pays for grants you 30 days of free game time on your host account. If you pay for a second month on the referred account, you get the Zhevra mount.

Indeed. Yes. Quite.

What moot said. RaF works, SoR doesn't. If I could have used SoR, I would have just done that , having two other WoW accounts on my bnet account and all.

I'm leveling two characters to level 80 on a RAF account now so that when MoP is live, I level a monk to lvl 2 by killing 5 boars then I apply 78 granted levels from the RAF account. Instant level 80. I then quickly level through nerfed lvl 80-85 content and get into MoP running. I will be lvl 90 on my monk by the second day (Hopefully). Monks will be fine at everything. They play a lot like rogues as they have Energy and Combo Points (Chi) but without the stealth and with more mobility. The healers can play like atonement priests where they heal by causing damage or like pallies where they stand back and heal with Combo Points (Chi). The tanks "Shuffle" damage, where on most hits they are able to take some of it instantly and delay some of it to hit gradually over the next nine seconds. This smoothes it out and monk tanks will be loved by healers. They also have strong Raid Cooldowns so they'll be loved by Raid Leaders. DPS play like rogues. Rogues have pretty much never been bad in PVE because Energy and CP as a resource system are a mature system and easy for Blizzard to balance. There is no reason to suspect that Monks won't be just as viable as any other melee DPS.

My understanding is that all three are really close right now and if your 10man needs a specific buff that one spec would bring, it's probably better to be that spec for the buff. Blizz has rogues in a really good spot, all three specs are pretty competitive so play what you most enjoy. Correct me if I'm wrong everyone. And welcome back Ghost

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It took long enough thanks to a reduction in raid size, but we finally did it! 8/8 Heroic DS 10man down right before the 30% nerf hit. Nice work guys! I'm really bad at taking pictures. :-/ In related news, we got our Meta Drakes on the first day of the next week.

Thanks Saz! This is pretty much our plan for Tuesday.

you are a hunter FORUM WHORE fixed it^^ Class whore, forum whore, raid-leading whore, I am many whores. Just call me the master whore.

Lies. I'm all classes. In ATR, I've raided with the main raid with the following classes: Pally Warrior Mage Hunter Druid I've done serious alt stuff with: Shammy Priest Only classes I haven't raided with seriously are: DK (No need with 3 other tanks) Lock (PVP Toon) I hate rogues so yeah.

I read it! I always bubble mine immediately. It usually works out a bit better timing-wise but I play it by how things are looking.

Thanks Saz. For reference: Ranged Add Priority: Bolt --> Parasite to 33% --> Blistering Tentacles --> Parasite to 0% --> Corruption --> Bloods --> Arm Tentacle. Melee Add Priority: Bolt --> Blistering Tentacles --> Corruption --> Parasite to 0% --> Bloods --> Arm Tentacles Our largest problems with this fight last night were healing comp (Not enough burst healing with druid healers. HPS means nothing if the targets aren't topped off for the next crush), followed by individual mistakes causing raid member deaths, followed by just getting used to the fight. Problems 1 and 2 should be fixed for next night of attempts.

Have fun!

On-call, ya'll know the drill.