Leadership 101

Good afternoon everyone,

Been a while since last time I addressed the topic of leadership.
Please study the text below:

Raid Leading: What does it take, how can I do it?

OUTLINE
1. What does a raid leader do
2. How should a raid leader prepare himself
3. How to judge the limitations of your team
4. How to judge what you need for an individual encounter
5. How to conduct yourself to the guild
6. How to handle confrontations
7. How to fix "problem players" in a raid
8. How to improve your guild's relations with other guilds and the server

Fear and loathing in WoW

Since my first adventure into the wilds with my little warlock,
the different specs seemed to have their own, distinct flavors.  I'm not referring to the rotations, damage dealt, or even focus of each spec; those were present, too, but this difference was its own entity.  Rather, each style had a unique aura that I felt while playing it, as if the goal was different for each player.  The closest class that I can align this idea to is the rogue: a combat rogue is a tavern brawler, a thug who loves to ambush people in plain sight; a subtlety rogue is more of the street thief who is not terribly interested in attacking if (s)he can steal and get away; an assassin rogue is a ninja - kill quickly and by any means.  For the warlock, each of the different styles had a similar spirit, but there was a little something that made it more... sinister.

Heart of Fear - Heroic Race

It just came in folks, a number of guilds made good progress deep into the Heart of Fear. First boss gave way after a hotfix by Blizzard late last night. Progression raiders did not waste time and jumped into the raid. DREAM Paragon, Method, Blood Legion - who's going to take the crown this time?

Let's see who's leading this tier:
* indicated that guild is NOT able to kill the last boss this week due to skipping some heroic kills and doing them on normal

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Method Blood Legion vodka Exodus Exorsus	Blood Legion vodka Exodus	Method Exorsus Pulse Wraith Apex

10	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	DREAM Paragon		DREAM Paragon

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	DarkStorm* why so serious* Method Blood Legion vodka	Blood Legion vodka Promethean' Exodus	DarkStorm* why so serious* Method Exorsus Wraith

10	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Arctica* Eleven* У беляшa* DREAM Paragon Crimson Blade*	Crimson Blade* Hate Plow* Ctrl Z*	Arctica* Eleven* У беляшa* DREAM Paragon E V O*

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Method Blood Legion vodka Exorsus why so serious	Blood Legion vodka Exodus	Method Exorsus why so serious Pulse genuine

10	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Arctica* DREAM Paragon Crimson Blade* У беляшa*	Crimson Blade*	Arctica* DREAM Paragon У беляшa*

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Method Blood Legion vodka Exorsus why so serious	Blood Legion vodka	Method Exorsus why so serious

10	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	DREAM Paragon У беляшa*		DREAM Paragon У беляшa*

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.	Blood Legion Method	Blood Legion	Method

10	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

25	World	US	EU
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

10	World	US	EU
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Raiding in Korea - 10 vs 25 man

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)

We received several feedbacks regarding raid instance lockouts and 10/25 rewards, and we appreciate your opinions and deep interests. We thought that Korean players wish to enjoy the most hardcore contents more flexibly and according to their play styles. Therefore, from the upcoming patch we decided to change the raid instance lockout rules for all KR servers. Raids, as usual, will be reset every 7 days following maintainance checks. However, after 5.1 patch 10 man and 25 man raids will have seperate lockouts.

From now on, players could play raid instances, such as Mogu-Shan Vaults, in both 10 man and 25 man difficulty. Normal and Heroic difficulty raid of same instance will share same lockout as usual. Furthermore, the loots of 25 man raids has been buffed, and will offer higher iLV compared to same 10 man instance. For example, Terrace of the Endless Spring in 25 man difficulty will drop loots with iLV of 504, wile 10 man will drop 496.

We wish that players will further enjoy the contents and gain satisfactory rewards, and decided to offer the system that suits most well with the KR players.

Hi guys, Saintlyn here again with an update. So Blizzard is trying something out in Korea that effectively brings back WotLK times with separate 10 and 25 man raid lockouts. What do to make of this?

DREAM Paragon - 6/6HM - CLEARED!

Congrats guys!

Despite the late start DREAM Paragon is the World First Guild to clear Mogu'shan Vaults!

How to play Retribution in 5.0.5

Mists of Pandaria 5.0.5 was a class cataclysm. Our spec trees were destroyed, glyphs reworked, abilities changed. This article is aimed at giving you the "need-to-know" information on not just surviving the expansion, but actually doing good as retribution paladin.

My name is Saintlyn, I am a paladin with <Zug Life> - Cho'gall-US. I will be your class guide for the day.
Let's begin, shall we?

DREAM Paragon - 5/6 HM Mogu'shan Vaults

Just came in guys!

UPDATE: DREAM Paragon killed Elegon and is now 5/6HM MV!

DREAM Paragon takes the lead and kills the Spirit Kings!

7 other guilds are close behind with 3/6HM

Rank	Guild	Realm	Progress	Criteria
1	DREAM Paragon (10)	EU-Lightning's Blade	4/16 (H)	3000.00
2	vodka (25 recruiting)	US-Alterac Mountains	3/16 (H)	2250.00
3	Blood Legion (25 recruiting)	US-Illidan	3/16 (H)	2250.00
4	Method (25 recruiting)	EU-Twisting Nether	3/16 (H)	2250.00
5	Why Me (25 recruiting)	EU-Wrathbringer	3/16 (H)	2250.00
6	Envy (25 recruiting)	EU-Auchindoun	3/16 (H)	2250.00
7	Wraith (25)	EU-Sargeras	3/16 (H)	2250.00
8	Pulse (25 recruiting)	EU-Blackmoore	3/16 (H)	2250.00
9	Exodus (25 recruiting)	US-Cho'gall	2/16 (H)	1500.00
10	Crimson Blade (10)	US-Frostmourne	2/16 (H)	1500.00

Race Update - Day 2

Hello everyone!

The race to World First Mogu'shan Vaults is on!
Seems like later last night top 3 guilds were stuck on the 3rd boss - Gara'jal the Spiritbinder. Even thou <Blood Legion> got to him first, <vodka> actually scored a first world kill! Congrats to them! Vodka is one of those black horses that can be anyone's guess - very talented guys, very experienced. Is it maybe their tier? What do you think?

EU raids opened up late last night. Both <Paragon> EU-Lightning's Blade and <Method> EU-Twisted Nether are in pursuit! They caught up with US competitors without much trouble. Looks like EU is looking stronger, as they've spent less time per boss. Here's a current standing:

1 vodka (25 recruiting) US-Alterac Mountains 3/16 (H) 2250.00
2 Blood Legion (25 recruiting) US-Illidan 3/16 (H) 2250.00
3 DREAM Paragon (10) EU-Lightning's Blade 3/16 (H) 2250.00
4 Method (25 recruiting) EU-Twisting Nether 3/16 (H) 2250.00

Here's a little preview to heroic modes cooked up by Method:

Aaaand we're off!

Race to the World First - Mogu'shan Vaults is underway.

Here's a state of things to date (this will be updated daily!):

US had an early start and they didn't waste time at all!

Early on <vodka> US-Alterac Mountains took the lead killing Stone Guard at 17:14. Their celebration was short thou, as <Blood Legion> US-Illidan caught up in just 6 minutes. <Blood Legion> then went on to take World First Feng the Accursed, just 34 mins later (can't be more than a few pulls!).

<Exodus> US-Cho'gall is in 3rd with Stone Guard kill at 19:51

Threatening Light

Hi guys and gals,

Saintlyn's here with another update. Week 2 of Mists of Pandaria is behind us. I've had enough time to run A LOT of dungeons, did Mogu'shan Vaults raid (first 4 bosses) on 10 man, tanked and killed World Bosses and had "fun" grinding reputation. Man I hate daily quests!

The topic of discussion today will be about threat thou. I quickly found out that recent changes to Seal of Truth hurt a bit more then expected. My tanking partner in raids is a Blood DK. I do have to admit that I'm a bit jealous about the amount of damage and threat they put out. I usually have to fight him for threat on tank switch encounters. One may say - "Well, they nerfed paladins! Deal with it". However, I decided to look into things we can do now to level the playing field. More after the jump

Level 90 - Accomplished! On to tanking... Wait.. Tanking?

Hi everyone!

Saintlyn here with a small update! Level 90 - finally! I did the last part of leveling (88-90) by questing. According to my calculations, I had to complete 100 quests per level. Lucky for me Pandaria has a lot of NPCs that need your help! As long as you select a zone of your level.