Taran_Draconise
Diary of a Mad Man
June 5th Raid
Raid last night was a pleasant surprise for everyone. The hype about finally getting back to raid was well met by everyone and the numbers showerd that. We held a solid 20+ for the entire evening. Overall, I think the group performed well considering we have not officially raided in almost 2 weeks. Overall DPS was strong but I felt we still had a lot of room for improvement. A couple of things that stood out was buffs. We are still not getting combat prayer enough. It's critical that we get minor berserk 70% of the time or higher. I can't start really pushing Impact buffs until we have mastered the uptime group synergy buffs. I am worried about this because it could mean we are relying on the wrong people to provide for the group. I also noticed that while our overall footprint was good it was not good enough. I want to see the group footprint no larger than 16 meters at all times. I would be happy with 18m but it has to stay small. I tended to focus more last night on buffs and movement than ulti calls but it was our first night back.
I was really pleased with the new builds. The healing build while not completely optimized that caidmay has put together seems very strong. Strong enough in fact to warrant a move from kags at some point. The new nightblade build that i am running seemed to over perform in specific situations. That was not expected but definately pleasant. I still have some more tweaking to do on it but I think its the new model at this point. I squireld alot away from the group and dued more than i should have. I need to focus a little more on my position in relation to the group.
If i had to make a guess as to what our issues were last night it was mobility. We can improve this by making the group tighter but it would be best to actually have the second rapids person in group. Regardless, we are working on the problem from two sides. First Alder is making an adjustment to the addon team formatrion. She is adding a range circle to the hud that is adjustable. This will alow members to set the range they want and as long as they keep the crown in there range circle the group should stay tight.
We were a little heavy on healers last night but we were down earthgores. Only 3 of the alotted 6 were in group. This is not realy a big issue but I want to make sure we are using it to our advantage and we only want to run the comp number on heals. This we need to shift some of the healers to purge or rapids. I feel like we are really close to having our full 10 support all the time, we just lack the appropriate classes amongst our support players.
I did record last night but i have not reviewed. We had a couple new applicants to the guild and I wanted to get those invites out before i review the video. Overall I think the first night was good. We have a solid core at this point and everyone is more than happy to work towards more competitive play.
by Taran_Draconise on 2018-06-06 09:03:12