Progression Raiding

This style of raiding is for players that are more serious about making forward progress in the game through raiding. This is also the section of the guild that least resembles the “friends and family” ideology of the guild.

Invitation Rules will vary depending on the instance chosen.

In general, progression raids will require a specific gear score to be on the invite list. This is to insure that we are putting our best foot forward in the attempts. Once we progress and get comfortable with the encounters, progression raids may turn into casual raids, where we open up the invites to everyone.

For the most part the gear score requirements are attainable by doing 5-mans for emblem gear and paying attention to your enchants and gem selections.

Even with a smaller invite list, common sense invite rules still apply:

We take the first two tanks to sign up
We take the first two (sometimes three) healers to sign up
We take the rest as DPS in order of sign up time.

Progression raiding is more likely to bend the rules for specific raid requirements. The Raid Leader may have to make player substitutions based on the roles we need for a specific encounter. For example replacing some ranged DPS players with melee DPS or replacing a DPS class with a healer because we need 3 healers for an encounter.
Requirements
Generally there is a minimum gear score requirement. We use WoW-Heroes to determine gear score requirements.

Deadly Boss Mods is a required mod for progression raiding. If you don’t have it, you won’t get invited, likewise if you get invited and we find out during the raid you do not have it, you’ll be replaced if someone else that qualifies is available. In raids where one person’s mistakes could wipe the raid, we take no chances that people aren’t informed of boss actions (via the mod).

It is also required that you be able to at least hear voice chat. If you can’t you may be replaced. Progression raiding is difficult, and relies on the instant communication of voice for fights. While it’s true we could type these things, it takes time that may be critical to avoiding some deadly effect.

Expectations
For progression raiding, we do expect you to be near the top of your game. That is, you know your skill rotations, ideal skills, emergency skills, etc. We also expect that you have a reasonable talent build appropriate to complex raiding. Your build may be investigated by raid leaders if they notice sub-standard performance, especially if your gear is of the appropriate level.

We also expect some patience. Progression raiding is sometimes a hard life. We might work on a single encounter for 2 hours without ever making a kill or getting an emblem. If you get frustrated easily by deaths, this style of raiding is probably not for you.

We expect raiders to educate themselves about fights prior to attempting them. This usually includes a visit to Tankspot to check out the videos section regarding the specific boss we are attempting. Watching the video once is far better than going in blind, however we recommend watching and memorizing all possible pitfalls and boss tactics used in the encounter. More specifically focus on things that your class will have to pay the most attention to. Ex: A warlock might not need to know about tank swapping on 3 stacks of a debuff, but will need to know about puddles of death spawning at their feet. Raid Leaders will do their best to explain each fight prior to an attempt, but often we are learning the encounter with you and therefore the more prepared the whole raid is, the better the chances our attempts will be successful.

Progression raiding is not easy, and can be frustrating at times, but the payoff is far greater when we finally down a boss and the loot is eye-poppingly good!