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Patience helps, too — some abilities come faster with practice. Finally, preparation. Again, the standards you set here might vary depending on your guild. A fairly serious endgame guild would probably require all alts to fully enchant their gear and put rare gems (ideally epics) in epic items, and bring full consumables to make up for any gear disparity. Others might make this more a personal choice, to make things fairer for those who don’t have much time to farm. wow gold Barring someone from a run simply because their boots aren’t enchanted can border on the petty, but seeing how people treat their alts’ loot (and checking if they have the know-how to put the right gems and enchants in) is a really telling sign of how much they care about that character. ” “When bringing in alts, there are really two different classes of raid. Firstly, a main raid that lets some people switch to alts, either because you need them for raid balance or because you can afford to have a few lesser-geared players along with a longer-term aim. An example here would be gearing up a shaman alt on Black Temple and Hyjal farm runs so that it’s available to swap in for one or two Sunwell fights if needed. wow gold Since you outgear the content, having an undergeared healer won’t really hurt the raid much, and the end benefit is more flexibility in your raid composition for Sunwell progress. The second type of raid is a full alt run, with the expectation that most people will bring alts and standards set accordingly. You might not be breaking DPS records but everyone will get to have a bit of fun. An example of this is a BT guild putting together a Karazhan run on an offday. mp3 Most mains won’t need anything from the instance (recipes or offspec gear, perhaps) and it’s an opportunity for everyone to kick back and relax on different characters. With either raid, you’ll have composition requirements to fulfil, which is where the issue of fairness comes in.

Is it fair that the same shaman alt gets to come on all Black Temple clears, when someone else’s shaman lies gathering dust. The other players with shaman alts might say no, but the guild as a whole might say yes, as it enables one character to get Sunwell-ready rather than give assorted epics to multiple people with no benefit for the guild. wow gold In a case like this, you have to examine why you’re letting alts into raids, and make sure that everyone understands it’s not just so that particular person is rewarded with more purples. When it comes to putting together raids comprised mostly of alts, composition becomes a major problem. Suddenly all your tanks are healers, all your healers are DPS and.. wait.. buy wow gold nobody has a tank alt. It’s hardly fair that your MT has to tank on his nights off because nobody else could be bothered to roll a tank. Fortunately in my experience these things tend to even out, thanks to respecs and people realising the surefire route to getting raid spots on their alt. wow gold If you end up having to ask people to bring their mains, it really helps to keep track of who’s had to play what, so that you can ensure it’s not always the same person losing out. ”

Ready Check: Alts and Raiding
Published by adminon July 22, 2008in Uncategorized. Closed
“Whether you’re currently raiding Karazhan or Sunwell, you’ve likely run into the alt issue. You spend night after night playing the same character, pressing the same buttons in the same environments, and reach a point where you don’t need loot from certain instances and are bored stiff of taking your main there. Yet there’s that level 70 alt that could do with some drops, and playing it will also bring a new dimension to liven up an old instance. It’s not usually as simple as just playing another character for the night, though. There are a number of issues that raid leaders and guilds run into when the concept of alts coming to raids rears its head, which this column will look at. Alts and Fairness First off, the F-word: fair. As soon as you deviate from your usual raid-filled-with-raiding-mains bread and butter, things start getting a little grey. Fairness needs to be taken into consideration with many issues, from figuring out who can take an alt and who can’t, to the distribution of loot and standards you hold players to. The key principle I’ve learnt from experience here is to work things out in advance, lay them down on forums or elsewhere (raid chat, vent etc before the raid starts) and not to make things up as you go along. Of course, you’ll run into new situations that demand an on-the-fly answers, but if you’ve got set rules and principles then you should be able to work these problems out easily. The majority of problems I’ve seen with fairness and alt runs were when people were winging it, and raid members started to complain because things started getting unfair. What is fair. This might mean a different thing to your raid group than to others. For some, it’s giving everyone an equal chance to take part.

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For others, it’s working out what benefits the raid most. Perhaps it’s rewarding those who put in more time and effort, either on mains or alts — giving bonuses to the people who’ll be there for the long haul. Or it’s just for kicks and giggles, with the aim of having a good time (which includes pleasing as many people as possible with the loot decisions, too). ” “Brad Justice (let me say that again, Brad Justice!) sent us a valuable tip about Titan Panel, and it’s easily confirmed by a casual look over at the official forums. Let me explain. wow gold No, there is too much — let me sum up. If you use Titan Panel, you may see an unexplainable GM ticket open in the upper right corner of your screen. You may open that empty ticket, and then Abandon it. Your attempt will fail. wow gold But don’t worry — it’s not your fault. It’s Titan Panel. That ticket will linger there like some kind of horrific nightmare. wow power leveling But there’s hope. You can either simply disable the AddOn until they get the problem sorted out or attempt a “”full UI reset.”" (A full UI reset is the process by which you basically delete the WTF folder, Cache, and Interface folders and more or less start all over again.) I personally went for the slightly less-intense “”disable”" option. Anyway, good luck fixing it — we just wanted to let you know this is what’s up, since Titan Panel’s pretty popular. WoW Insider Show episode 46: When the cat’s away We had a very special WoW Insider show last Saturday. With the usual suspects out of town Daniel, Robin, Duncor and I had a blast talking about all kinds of juicy goodness. You can download the show and listen to it whenever you like. I’ve recently gotten my new Blizzard authenticator, and I’m really happy about it.

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