Welcome to the March WOW meeting. Thank you all for attending this meeting.
Next Tuesday, March 12th Patch 8.1.5 will be released. This is great as there will be more War Campaign information, and we're getting some intro quests to the Crucible of Storm raid to come. There also will be additional Allied Races - Kul Tirans for Alliance and Zandalari Trolls for Horde. There are some updates for Darkmoon Faire and a big update to portals - getting around the world will be changed from how you do it now. Purrg noted that there are also profession quests coming - it is my understanding you have to be maxed in order to participate. More content is always a good thing.
Other than the upcoming Patch, we have seen strong numbers of players on. If you are looking for a group for anything, please speak up in Guild Chat. Also pay attention to Guild Chat, there are always people asking for additional participants for groups like Mythic+. If you do not respond fast enough, you may miss out. Please do not be afraid to speak up!
New Novices:
None
Inductions:
Throl, Kimyanna, Polovax - None were present so will need to be raised potentially during an impromptu ceremony or next meeting.
Officer Induction:
None
Award Nominations:
None
Raiding:
The raid team has completed the first 7 bosses of Normal Dazar'Alor and the first boss on Heroic. The heroic bosses are not easy with a lot of movement required as well as new mechanics. Note that the required gear level is a minimum 365 with an item level above 380 preferred for Normal. Gearing up for the raid is not too difficult, especially with how often you can get upgrades from Assaults, World Bosses, Emissary Quests and the near nightly mythic+ groups. Please make sure if you plan to attend a raid that you come doing your research. The raid leaders would prefer to spend less time talking and more time at attempts as bosses and hopefully collecting more loot.
A sensitive topic are raiding requirements - generally, we are an open invite raid provided you come gemmed, enchanted, and meet the minimum item level requirements. As we reach harder and harder content, though, we have to start looking at minimum HPS and DPS requirements as we struggle to complete some bosses. Currently, the BC's and I are reviewing the logs. I should note that the logs are posted for all to see so you can compare yourself to other DPS/Healers as well as review your own performance. Right now, we really need to shoot for 12k DPS and 10k HPS on boss fights. If someone is struggling to meet these requirements, we will do our best to help you by providing information or pointing you to a source for good information, but we may ask you to sit out for the progression fights. It's really a last resort. If we do ask you to sit, we will continue to bring you for all other farm bosses and once we feel comfortable, will bring you for a kill on that boss. Again, this is not our preferred method of progressing, but sometimes, the DPS/HPS requirements are too steep if we have even a couple of people who cannot meet the requirements. If you have any questions, please see me or another BC.
One tool I have found for analyzing your performance in a raid is https://www.wowanalyzer.com/ . You can input the warcraft log into the analyzer and it will give you tips for improving your performance. All of us can use CD's better, and it can help you to remember to use specific abilities. It's not a perfect tool as it may not cover ever spec perfectly, but it is a tool to help you review your performance more in depth.
Two specific items that we need to make sure everyone goes out and purchases/earns are battle-scarred augment runes and the current potions for pre-potting. I know we have allowed the older Draenic pots to be used, but at the level we are raiding, we cannot do that. For bosses on farm like the first 6 bosses on Normal, there is no issue using the cheaper pots. Beyond that, though, we need to start using the current pots due to the significant DPS increase.
Raiding food and flasks. Please if you have mats to share or can make cauldrons or feasts, please put them in the raiding tab or collect in preparation for the new raid. The new feast uses sanguicell which is soulbound, but we can hand out mats from the tab for people to make feasts and put in the bank. If you're still fishing and collecting, we can still make the old feasts as well. We appreciate any and all mats for current raiding food, flasks, pots, and health and mana potions.
