[Kelset]

First I would like to say its good to be back raiding and thanks to Korinne for finding my bugged info in the system. Also thanks to Inish and Lacomb for helping me get back up to speed on raiding. Its been a few years since I've raided regularly and their help has lessoned the re-learning curve.

The first question I have is in regards to the healers channel. Do we have any specific system set up on determining who to pump mana to? So far I've determined it by who's lowest on mana, anyone who appears to be main healer, those who other necros arent pumping and Clerics over Druids for efficiency. Is this good or is there a specific system I need to know about?

I'm in the process of getting my raid hotkeys set up and my 2nd question is are we using the Raid designated assist - leader aa consistently enough that I can set up my main assist hot key as the command "/assist Raid"? No big deal if we don't it just saves a little time in retyping a specific name every raid or if the ma goes down midfight it makes it easy to reassist.

Lastly I had an issue with the /pet hold in my hotkeys and my pet would get back on the main after the first add was dead in a secondary assist. Thanks to a tip from Lacomb I've corrected a line in the hotkey and it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

Thanks

Kelset aka Deadsun Rising

[Krisstoff]

[Celephane]

When I was still raiding with AH, I found the healer channel FAR too busy to get useful pumping info from in mid-fight, any channel that runs a loop in it becomes useless to non-loopers. Your best bet is to hope the healers max out regen soon and don't need it...but in reality I found tells worked best, depending on how many necros you have and if you have a class lead. Currently I give preference to those in Loop. But you also really have to balance the DPS loss VS mana gain argument. Doing PoTime for instance, P4 Terris Thule and Saryrn will both drain mana badly and you can't just DPS them down.
I have a whole bank of MA hotkeys by name, just make a hotkey for each tank that normally performs that role, then switch the key out for a new person.

[Shieara]

It's not really that busy anymore. We haven't used a loop since, uhh, Xegony. If we ever do use a cheal loop again it probably will be filtered to a different channel (ahloop).

[Kelset]

Thanks for the replies. In regards to the mana/dps argument that one is pretty easy to handle. Killing the mob before the healers run out of mana is always highest priority for me However if I can't get a full run of dots on due to resists or the clerics are being drained or we are short on healers I'll move pumping up on the priortity list.

The /assist RAID does seem to be working on the last raids I've attended so I'll stick to that unless told otherwise. Myst, Lacomb also suggested a bank of assist keys for the various tanks so I'll probably add that for back up and for secondary assists. Thanks for the input. Hehe now just to figure out who they are and how to spell their names.

Kriss don't worry Korrine reminds us daily on the importance of druids with the guild MOTD. "Have you /hugged your druid today....have you /kissed your druid today....../have you (use your imagination) your druid today"

[Korinne]

As far as DPS vs Mana.....typically the lead in the healing channel (usually me or Shieara) will tell you what is more important...mana or DPS.

If the fight is a full burn ...we will say so in the strats and you should focus on that, however if one of the main tank clerics is low on mana....you can see where you would be called off DPS to pump. Usually this doesn't happen on a full burn fight. I will tell you if I don't want you on DPS, and it's usually something like "your reason for existence today is to keep the healers in mana". =P
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[Darby]

you'll need to set up an assist hotkey for our newest tank, Hearrun...