Leading your Raid into the Unknown

February 17, 2010 at 3:17 pm (Grouping, Icecrown Citadel, Patch 3.3, Patches, Raiding)

Icecrown Citadel is completely out now, and everybody is making their own way through it. My guild downed Blood Princes for the first time last week. That fight in particular has really got me thinking about the process of learning a new boss. This isn’t something we think about very often, and it’s not discussed a lot. I see other Priests play, and learn from them. I don’t often see other Raid Leaders raid lead, and so I pretty much make it up as I go. When it comes to learning a new fight you can’t really go inspect another guild to see how they do it. “Progression” is this mysterious thing which some guilds are better at, and we don’t really know why. We just watch a Tank Spot video and copy it as best we can.

So, in the spirit of sharing I want to talk about four simple things which I think every raid leader and raid group can keep in mind to learn new fights faster. If you have any strategies you employ I would genuinely appreciate hearing about them.

So, 4 ways to learn fights faster:

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