If you would like to get geared for Cataclysm raids, the best thing to do is farming heroics. Grouping up with guild mates will prevent a lot of stress and keep the game fun. Be sure to ask in guild chat if anyone would like to join for heroics before queuing up by yourself. Also, feel free to whisper anyone from Dunder Mifflin Inc (our allied raiding guild) to see if they are able to group up for heroics. If you would like to start joining our guild for raids, please have at least an average item level of 350. Avoid having PVP gear on, because the resilience stats it offers are useless. They limit your deeps and leave you quite squishy in boss encounters. Please consult Tides or Scottie (Natchos) for a raid checkup if you are interested in joining us for raids.
Our official raid day with Dunder Mifflin is Saturdays at 8pm server time. Our unofficial raid day for just our guild is Fridays at 7pm server time, or possibly Sundays at an earlier time. This time could change depending on what the guild favors most. We shall come up with an official guild-only raid day once we find out everyone's preferable schedule.
** If you would like to raid with us, please send an in-game message to Tides with your spec, current average item level, and raiding availability for Fridays and Sundays.**
Other aspects of gearing up for raids that shouldn't be overlooked are your gems, enchants, and other modifiers made possible through the various trade professions. I will keep this blog post updated as we get new gear modifier recipes from other guild mates, or when other guild mates have learned the same recipes so we don't have to rely on one person. If you have a maxed trade profession and would like to offer your services to the guild, please let Tides know so this blog post can be kept up to date. Scroll down to the end of this post to see the list of raid gear modifier recipes.
One final method in gearing for the new Firelands raid is by means of Firelands Garbo Runs. These are runs in which we form a raid to kill just the garbo inside the new Firelands raid to raise our reputation with the new Avengers of Hyjal faction. There are vendors inside the Firelands raid instance that sell very nice gear. Once you hit at least friendly reputation standing with them you should be able to purchase nice upgrades. We will set an offical night for our Firelands Garbo Runs.
** Please read up on this quick guide to Firelands Garbo Runs. It's the bloody bee's knees! **
An important reminder for those who wish to raid with us. Please know the fights. Watch the boss fight video tutorials on Youtube. This is absolutely required. I post the video guides for the raid bosses we farm on this blog for your convenience. I've enabled quick access to these raid video guides by means of the QUICKies list of links to the right-hand side of the guild blog. If videos aren't enough, make use of this excellent text-based guide to all the Cataclysm raids. Also, please make use of the elitistjerks website. It is such a great resource for learning to play and gear your class (click on the forums link for an in-depth coverage of your class). I've included it as a link in this post as well as a link under the WoW related resources located on the right-hand side of the guild blog. Please be able to pull at least 10K deeps. The proper gear, gear modifiers, raid boss encounter knowledge and class skill will ensure that you will be joining us as a successful raider. Thanks for your cooperation, LOSTies! Cheers!
Raid Gear Modifier Guild Recipes
Jewelcrafting
For the longest time Tides has been offering free gems to guild mates, but now it's getting to be too expensive. From now on, the shiny rocks are free to any alchemist supplying raid level flasks to our Guild Keep, or any herbalists involved in our Trade Pass guild feature (speak to Tides for more info). For everyone else, gem cuts will be free if you supply the gem, or 50 gold if you don't have the gem. Listed below are just a few of my gem cut recipes, you should be able to access my entire list of jewelcrafting recipes in-game through the guild panel.
- Sparkling Ocean Sapphire (+40 spirit): Tidesroyale
- Brilliant Inferno Ruby (+40 intellect): Tidesroyale
- Delicate Inferno Ruby (+40 agility): Tidesroyale
- Quick Amberjewel (+40 haste): Tidesroyale
Enchanting
Enchanting will be free to those that are able to supply the mats. Here are a few of the exceptional recipes. To see what other recipes are available, you can look up Haloryne through the guild panel.
- Windwalk (tanking weapon enchant): Haloryne
- Power Torrent (caster weapon enchant): Haloryne
- Landslide (melee weapon enchant): Haloryne
Crystal x5
- Heartsong (spirit weapon enchant): Haloryne
Tailoring
- Powerful Ghostly Spellthread (+95 intellect, +55 spirit on pants): Haloryne
