The sheer preparation for getting to the point where we could zone in with legitimate expectations of downing a boss and making progress was intense and rewarding to see. Congratulations to all that participated and made it happen. A lot of work went into it before we ever even zoned in. Keep it up.
More work is needed. Everyone should know the fights - information that is published in the common sources such as FatBoss TV (YouTube), Wowhead.com, tankspot.com, wow forums, and your favorite boss strat website. It is, of course, not enough to know that Morchok has a spell - Stomp - which you can watch the effect of, and hear about on FatBossTV, and read about on wowhead.com in the Morchok write-up, you have to act on that knowledge when you are in the raid. If you are outside the range of his Stomp, you are not affected by it -- which given the ability, may or may not be a good thing! The point is that you should know that. In the raid, we can discuss how we are going to respond as a raid to the encounter, we should not be spending time explaining what the encounter is as this is not only time-consuming and unlikely to register correctly the first time, it is a strong indicator that you are not prepared.
Reviewing the logs: the tanks are geared enough and need to work on their footwork and the smoothness of their managing the series of events that are a boss fight; the healers are geared enough and need to work on casting the right spells rightly (timely and on the right targets) and to always be casting (interrupt those casts if you do not want to finish the cast but always have one loading up to deliver); and, the dps is mostly geared enough (some need to gather more gear and we knew this and that was fine with overall raid gearing) and need to work on eeking out more dps by having more uptime on targets and stronger execution of their rotations/priorities. ALL of this is standard, published information either in the boss fight strategy write ups or videos and the handling of your class' role and performance is well documented and advised in the wow forums for your class.
Which is to say, we need to work on our footwork, people -- it isn't the dance clothes that make us look stilted and rough on the dance floor.
This is good news. We have the right people with the right track record of looking at what we can do better and then doing it better each time.
What I would like to avoid, is people zoning in next week with little or no additional work on their footwork. Take the next several days to make some personal progression so that we can make some raid progression next week.
Start by watching the FatBossTV fight videos for each boss... at least 3x times. THEN go read about the fights. Then go read about your class in your role in those fights. Then go watch the fights again! Then run those fights in LFR in your role. As you are doing them, pay attention to where LFR is different than 10m. Watch for boss timers. After you run LFR for VP, run it again, and likely again, until you can predict what abilities the boss will cast and when and what effect you expect it to have.
When you can anticipate that the raid group's health is going to collectively plummet within 25 yards of Morchok and that the two closest characters to Morchok will take twice as much damage as everyone else, whether you are a tank, a healer, or a dps, you will be the better enabled to help your raid seamlessly transition from pulling the boss to looting the boss.
This week, work on your footwork and envision seamlessly transitioning from pulling the boss the looting the boss.
Go be awesome and bring it next week!
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