Stop being bad, easy things to make pugging raids easier for you.

[Jheusse]

Excellent summary Super, as a player who was more of a raider that became a multiboxer all that information is good stuff.

As a former and current mod/admin/owner of several enthusiast sites I'm used to that reflexive whining of the masses when the poor schmuck with the badge posts as himself versus when he posts as the dude with the badge. You do a good job being transparent about that.

As far as fighting stupid with stupid regrettably yes it's accurate. Our raiding org (Leftovers) has ongoing hate threads for Gearscore as it's so abused by the windowlickers of the WoW world.

I run in a huge raiding alliance with charters, so my need to pug is minimal, but the advice about having your gear gemmed and enchanted is huge. Nothing says "I'm lazy carry me" like ungemmed/unenchanted gear. Doesn't matter if it's not your final set, a baseline level of cost and effort is required to show you're serious rather than wanting someone else to skate you to purples. And everyone who has done any amount of raiding has experienced "I scrimped to get that piece for weeks and got an upgrade 2 days after I finally got it, making it worthless". Cost of doing business.

Gemming and enchanting is part of raid prep, so is reading strategies and being prepared. Whether a student on his laptop in class reading tankspot strats instead of facebook or a working professional doing it over their lunch hour.

For addons the minimum baseline for me would be Omen and Deadly Boss Mods, Omen tells you when your threat gets too high for the tank and DBM tells you when to move out of the fire in big windowlicker proof letters and alert sounds.

You're in the raid? Great!
1- Don't stand in the fire.
2- Kill the skull (aka assist the tank)
3- Profit.

Sure there's a ton of "Do's and Do-not's" you can add beyond that (like don't do recount reports to the raid, it makes you "that guy"), but this is the bare bare basics.


e: And pugchecker.com is one of the better snapshot tools I've seen.