Raid Etiquette 101

Raid Etiquette 101: How to behave in a raid and rolling on loots. Yea while it's self explanatory to some clearly there's a bunch called noobs who need this info but hopefully after reading my guide they are now educated an no longer a nub.

I use to have a whole section on just raid behavior ..but then the guild rerolled along with all my info. The new priest lead doesn't like to be so formal but I see it as me being on top of things so people dont need me to be holding their hand because I've linked all my personal knowledge in text form on our forums.

*These rules are for in Guild Raids please scroll to the bottom for special notes on PUG (pick up group) raids. I believe these raid rules or raid etiquette apply to any and every raid.

1.) PRERAID: PREPARE:
1a.) Research - you have read about this instance/raid and know what to expect and do. www.Wowwiki.com, www.bosskillers.com

1b.) Gear Check - Is your gear good enough for this instance? check out which boss drops what to upgrade yourself Kaliban's Loot List. http://be.imba.hu/ is a good estimator on your gear and what instance you're ready for. Personally I think numbers need to be a bit higher as some of the tank numbers aren't strong enough.

1c.) Repair - make sure you are fully repaired and have at least 50g for repairs, bring a repair bot if you have one.

1d.) Consumables - did you bring a few stacks of your class reagents, mana pots, buff foods, oils, and about 2-3 stacks of food/waters. Sure you might have a mage but then what if he leaves.

1e.)Addons - are you using the most uptodate addon that your raid's running with? my raids at the very minimum needs (deadly boss mods, omen, and ventrilo) DBM and Omen need to be updated every 2 weeks or so because your raid is using those numbers to figure aggro and such. Test these things out earlier so you're not like brb need to fix addons meanwhile the whole raid is waiting for your arse.

1F.) signed up on raid forums

1G.) Loot rules - read up on your guild's looting policy or ask if it's in a pug. Dont go if you dont agree with it or like it.

2.) VENTRILO / RAID CHANNELS
2a.) channel and Vent silence during raids, only the raid leader should be talking and everyone else listening. Vent is for the raidleader to give directions and call shots in raid. I dont care what cool stuff you have to say save it for after the raid because while you're speaking you're also making it hard for other people to hear directions from the raid leader.

2a1.) Keep text / vent chatter to zero and specific raid channels should not be used by nonraiders it is not your frat channel. If invited or you just wanted to listen in ask permission first and do not speak you are there as observer only.

2b.) Be courteous in raid channels and vent - if you can't use it with you mom, grandma or kids then dont speak it in vent. These are people and some of them will have children or family in the room. Save your frat talk for another time when it's not raid and you're iwith your friends.

2c.) Dont' give out your guild's vent passwords to random pugs, friends or what not. Every guild has "public" vent channels that they use for the random run. A password is private and meant only for guild members. there's nothing like having a stranger interrupting your raid or spamming vent just because he has the password and can do whatever he wants.

2d.) raid channels are special channels that are used in raids to give out directions like healers usually have thier own channel so if you're dps then you shouldn't be in there to start. First off you're not healing 2nd its privacy if they want to vent on how your crappy dps is making it hard for them it's thier right. AND never ever post in there in if you're not a raid healer that's inside that raid because you're clogging up the channel.

3.) LOOT RULES
- Every guild has thier own so make sure you understand it. Its rare for guilds to use need/greed but it happens.

need - if this item is going to be a upgrade for you BUT look around is this going to be a side upgrade for you or a big one if it's only a small upgrade pass and let the lesser geared person get it. Off spec (ask if anyone minds that you take of offspec).

need 2: can i need on 2 items for the same slot? no unless no one else needed the item. Its only polite that you pass on items for the slot that you won an epic for especially if it's from the same raid.

greed - you want it for shards or vendor gold.

Main vs. alts -- while i like the idea of mains getting prority but alts are in the raid so if it's a need/greed thing then all roll. DKP favors mains over alts.

**not following these rules will make you a loot whore and have everyone in the raid mumbling how you're greedy and selfish because that's what you're doing you're rolling on every possibly wearable item because it's an "upgrade" no matter how small. So be nice. Look around if you see someone else needing it and they really could use it and it's a huge upgrade for them but would give you 25 more spellpower do the honorable thing and hit pass. Your guildies will see that you took a small loss to help a guildie get a big upgrade. Benefits - you'll get invited to raids more next time.

• 1: WoW Wiki - Loot Systems
• 2: WoW Wiki - Main Looter
• 3: WoW Wiki - Group Loot
• 4: WoW Wiki - Looting While In a Party
• 5: WoW Wiki - Need Before Greed

4.) ATTENDANCE -- be on time.
4a.) sign up for the raid and try not to delist at last min unless it's an emergency

4b.) Delist if you're going to be a noshow

4c.) Lateness - be on time but if you know in advance that you're going to be late tell the raid leader, park your toon outside the instance however RL is not obliged to hold your spot so don't take it personally if you're spot is gone by the time you logged in.

4d.) Leaving early - don't do it plan your real life issues better so you have that 2-4 hour block of unintterupted time. If you know you need to leave early and someone else can stay the entire time it's polite to give your spot to the other person who can be there the entire time.

Otherwise if you need to leave early take the extra step to find your own replacement make sure they are also cleared to raid that instance. You whisper the raid leader with the names of the possible replacements so he doesn't have to look around.

4e.) Attendance - some guilds have required a certain # of days you need to raid and some don't so read your guild's info. Regardless show up on time and plan to stay until the posted raid stop time.

*Real life emergencies happen - so whisper the raid leader explaining the situation, then immediately hearth your toon out of the instance and drop raid. Staying inside the instance can mean that your raid cannot bring in a replacement. Obviously use common sense if your kid just fell down a flight of stairs you take care of the kid first then follow up with raid later.

Tips: have 1 bottle of water ready, 1 roll of bounty, and some easy to eat and hopefully healthy snacks. People have 3 needs: food, water and restroom break. So take care of these before raids if possible so you dont need to interrupt raids with bio break brb. At the very least do your bathroom stuff because you can always eat at your deak.

Kk i dont want to hear how you pooped in your pants or some other creative thing because that's just sick. RL>Wow and in this case bathroom break bio break >wow

5.) (I will add more as I think of it)