Being A Good Raider In WoW

Being a good raider in World of Warcraft is something that many PvE players should strive for.

What makes a good raider in World of Warcraft?

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What is the definition of a good raider in World of Warcraft?

So in this post I will be talking about being a good raider in World of Warcraft and how to avoid being a bad raider. The first step to being a good raider is to know your class. If you have played with others in a group setting you have probably heard this phrase before. Knowing your class does not simply refer to knowing what spells do damage, heal, or cause threat. It refers to your classes' optimal rotation that will allow you to achieve the highest number possible with your gear. Knowing your class can be attained through either reading each individual tooltip and devising a rotation on your own which is not advised, some more favorable methods are going online and doing a search on your class rotation or talking to other players that have the same class or spec as you in game. But make sure whoever you talk to in game knows what they are talking about and not just speculating. Most players just do a search on their class and research it, yes, they actually do work to attain high numbers. Some would argue that doing work is not what is intended in the game because playing a game is having fun and research is obviously not fun. Well I will answer this with a short tirade, there are two types of people in WoW, "casual" and "hardcore" or "semi-hardcore". Casual players will say that they don't care whether they are doing it right or wrong but the important thing is that they are having fun playing the game. Hardcore or Semi-Hardcore players will say that they don't mind research, some even say the research itself is fun. But their mindset is that it will all pay off in the end when they down those bosses and feel good that they finally attained their goal through all of that work. The second step to being a good player is to be aware of your surroundings and react accordingly during a boss fight while still adhering to step one. This is really what most top end guilds look in a raider and what maybe not so hardcore guilds tend to not look at so much as the numbers. This step, however, is something that will set you apart from the rest if you are consistent in adjusting with boss mechanics. Some common sense boss mechanics are in most situations fire is bad, move, and if your radiating with an effect its probably not good to stand next to others (the Ascendant Council in BoT contradicts both of the above statements but that's about it). Watching videos ahead of time or just reading the bosses abilities are also a good thing to do if its a raid boss that your going against and not just some dungeon boss (although props to you if you look up dungeon bosses for when they are just released). In most guilds for achieving both steps 1 and 2 you will be rewarded with loot which leads me to the last step, step 3, don't be a loot whore. You may or may not know this but some people actually think they deserve everything that is an upgrade for them that drops. Other than your guilds loot system or random rolls nobody likes someone who thinks they deserve any upgrade that drops. That being said not getting as much loot as another, lets say mage in the raid, doesn't mean that he is going to do more dps. The game is heavily skill dependant and lets say the other mage is doing 80% of his potential dps and your doing 90%, if he has one or two items that are better than yours he isn't going to beat you. And if your both playing your mage's right there isn't going to be that much of a difference between your numbers. The way I see it as long as it is going to a competent individual whose dps, healing, tanking etc. is going to help the raid progress then its loot well distributed. Well thanks for reading my post here on blog spot, feel free to leave a comment about one or two of my posts or suggestions.