Last night I was rather dismayed at my guilds DPS on Archimonde. We kept wiping until the raid was called. It is a fight where DPS is less important than dying, but we usually chip away at his health at a decent rate.

Some attempts I was 6th or 7th in dps, and:
-prot spec
-dps gear is mostly season 3/badge
-keeping commanding shout up, no battle shout in group
-keeping demo shout up
-no windfury
-stamina food
-my battle elixir: Juju...

Thist

This week I was just wondering about the mysterious world of officer decisions - they have to make them, but how much of their reasoning do you think they should share with their guild?

None,
Some,
Lots,
All,
On demand?

What do you do if you are an officer? Or what do your officers do? What do you think is best?

Thist

While I was trying to get my friend cleaved while tanking I thought about how evil tanks could help train people to not stand in fire.

For example if you pulled mobs into your group instead of a good place, turned them towards people, took more damage than you need to, etc. You could train them to move out of hazards, heal burst dam (/sit, heh), move while doing things etc.

Maybe us tanks facilitate lazy people who stand in fire and can't heal spike damage, and we...

Thist

I am in a great new guild and they even let me tank stuff despite having at least 3 tanks (2 warriors and a pally) that outgear me.

So in case you were wondering, you are fine in your badge, ZA and ssc/tk (no kael/vashj loot) for all bosses in Hyjal...EXCEPT Archimonde. You are fine for first 3 of BT too, will let you know about the rest later.

You want at least 20k health and some decent avoidance for Archimonde, unless you add in a couple extra healers or something....

Thist

Tanked this twice over the weekend, and learnt quite a lot because the RL was just "Tank, do your thing!" which was a little tough since I had never set foot into Sunwell before. This is a long guide for something so simple but someone may want to run one or get thrown in and may want to know what to expect.

Raid needs:
- 1 Tank (around t5 level, could maybe get away with less if your healers rock)
- 5-7 healers (depends how good they are)
- 6 mages...

Thist