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ayashi in wow_dota

DotA Raiding Poll!

Jul 31, 2013 10:59

Hi everyone, the officers would like to have a discussion about DotA raiding for the rest of the xpac. We've hit a bit of a slump recently, and would like to get people's opinions on where to go with DotA raids from here. Please don't think this post is just for current raiders, the changes in the upcoming patch have a lot of potential to help DotA ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

heinous_bitca July 31 2013, 19:17:10 UTC

The "elaborate why joining flex raids" is a very short text box, so I couldn't really elaborate.

My hope is that I'd be able to catch up my gear to be able to flex raid with the guild. I'm also currently only available every OTHER Friday, so that's one of the reasons I don't sign up. DotH raids also conflicted with time for DotA raids (I believe), so I didn't sign up on Saturday nights often.

ayashi July 31 2013, 20:45:50 UTC

Yeah, I tried to make the text boxes as big as possible but lj polls were being butt-tacular :(

At least in the past I think DotA raids and DotH raids did not quite conflict but there would be maybe 30-60 minutes between raids, so it could be tough for people like Kurai and I who attended both to make sure we ate dinner and got a break from the computer and stuff!

icelore July 31 2013, 19:33:24 UTC

I'd like to raid with DotA, but I leveled a an alt toon that was in CoD instead of my DK in DotA.

lightgatherer July 31 2013, 20:02:43 UTC

Raids getting harder, increased tank responsibility, an increasingly demanding child, schedule conflicts, and some stuff that hurt my feelings but I've since gotten over have kept me from raiding with the guild this expansion.

LFR is about my preferred difficulty level these days, and I like the scheduling flexibility. I don't like raiding with strangers and people who can be jerks. I was really hoping DotA would do flex Siege. A single evening of flex Siege on Sat or Sun would work great for me.

I'd prefer to keep to just BB people, but I'm open to others. If we recruit outside of friends/family, though, perhaps have some sort of vote system where we can decide if we'd like to raid with someone again?

ayashi July 31 2013, 20:54:45 UTC

I agree that we should have some way to determine if we want to raid with a particular stranger again - Not sure how we would do this off the top of my head but I think something should be in place for sure :)

frosted_miika July 31 2013, 21:55:12 UTC

Miikah just hit 90! yay! So.. her gear is poop... booo!
I also can't do the current raid days.. not a big deal as I raid else where, but hate seeing DotA raids not have enough people.. so if there were raid days where I could attend, I would definitely gear up Miikah (or even Aeryth when she is hits 90) to at least help out or come to flex raids. I just haven't put much effort into my toons as of yet since I knew I wouldn't be able to raid (well more fill in when you needed extra people)

kairahiniel July 31 2013, 22:51:41 UTC

DotA was the first thing I thought of when I heard of flex mode raiding. From testing on the PTR (on which it is currently overtuned, but working) I can confirm Flex is really fun and lets you be dynamic with roster, i.e. you can take up to 24 people if you want, overcoming the classic 10m problem of attendance being so much more of an obstacle than in 25's where you actually have a roster 30-35 strong, from which people rotate in and out for different bosses based on their loot needs & possibly which classes/specs best suit the boss.

It will end up being naturally beneficial to have a larger, diversified roster for flex, because that offers you more class/spec buffs, more raid CDs, and more people having fun together.