Wednesday Night Wipefest ®

About The Raid Team

We are a semi-hardcore raiding team. Though full of fun, merriment and about a handle of whiskey (for extremely old men like Jolygreen), our team remains focused on success in end game content. The team has a blast while raiding, but expects its team members to come prepared and to be raid aware.

This team is for you if you:

• Like to have fun

• Make people laugh and/or enjoy laughing

• Don’t mind getting picked on

• Have a sense of humor

• Are serious about end game content

• Hate gnomes

This team is NOT for you if you:

• Spend your Justice/Valor Points to make gold instead of buying better gear to benefit the raid team

• Incite drama

• Care more about loot than the people in the raid team

• Are looking for a raid team for your fifth alt

• Like gnomes

Schedule

Raids are on Wednesday nights from 9:30PM (server) to 1:00AM.

Raid Team Membership

Core Raid Team Members

Main Tank: Appodin – Protection Paladin and overall Noob

Off Tank: Kuyyo – Death Knight

Tank Healer: Deekalf – Holy Paladin

Raid Healer: Appomaster – Restoration Druid

Healer/DPS: Spottedcow – Elemental Shaman

Ranged DPS: Jolygreen – Leet Hunter that does fail DPS

Ranged DPS: Kaelvin – Mage

Ranged DPS: Osc "weak sauce" urio – Shadow Priest

Ranged DPS: Kuromaki - Warlock

Melee DPS: Ravishing - Rogue

Alternate Team Members

DPS/Healer: Dashka – Elemental Shaman

NOTE TO RAIDERS: To maintain your “Core Raid Team” raiding position, BIOP expects you to consistently participate in BIOP raids. Everyone knows that there’s life outside of Azeroth, and BIOP understands that sometimes the unexpected can rear its ugly head (no offense, Appomaster). If something prevents you from raiding, please inform the raid team, if feasible. If, however, you are unable to attend two consecutive raid nights, or three raids in a span of six, your raid status will be changed from Core to Alternate in an effort to promote stability.

• We are currently accepting alternate applications at this time. Send an in game mail to Appocolyptic or Appodin in game if you are interested.

“Raid Leader” Philosophy

The “Raid Leader” position for BIOP does not fall to a single player. In fact, the various duties typically performed by a Raid Leader are performed by different individuals, some of which rotate on a weekly basis. This is a collaborative team where each member is respected and has the opportunity to lead. Each leader will be responsible for a portion of raid leading below.

Encounter Orchestrators: Responsible for knowing each boss before fight and assigning roles. Knowing what the team is doing to suck and how to fix it. Coming prepared to each encounter. Knows the roles of all classes and how to utilize them.

Raid Organizer: Responsible for sending calendar invites, laying the hammer down on tentative replies and filling the raid when it is close to raid start time. Also responsible for saving raid IDs if a lockout is desired.

Raid Leader of Record: Primary liaison between the BIOP raid team and the alea iacta est guild leadership. Doesn’t really do much…

Loot

Loot Master: Master looter with KSK (See “Loot” below). Raid Quartermaster: (rotates every week) Responsible for fish feasts, beacons, and other raid-wide buff items. This is intended to prevent the cost of providing feasts from falling upon a single team member. Raid Quartermasters for each week will be identified on the raid invite. If you are unable to attend but are identified to provide materials, please mail them to the Raid Organizer, if possible.

Suicide Kings utilizes the Suicide Kings loot system for progression content on main spec gear. A player's main spec is defined as the spec the player uses most often in BIOP raids. (If there is any room for ambiguity, please identify your “main spec” to the loot master for the sake of clarity.) The Suicide Kings loot distribution system is explained in detail here. To facilitate distributing loot, BIOP uses the Konfer Suicide Kings add-on, which does not require every raid member to have the add-on. When you join the raid team, your name is randomly inserted into each list using the Konfer SK feature. Some additional notes on BIOP and KSK:

• Any PUG raiders will be randomly added to the bottom 50% of each KSK list

• BIOP employs separate KSK lists for each raid (separate lists for Throne of the Four Winds, Blackwing Descent, etc.) as well as separate lists for each of the following:

•Tier items/tier tokens

•BOE items

•Crafting patterns

• Kaelvin will be designated DE. He will get all items to DE and manage the resources. If some wins something in the raid they may ask him and if resources are available he will enchant. We are in need of a backup DE.

• Off-spec gear is distributed by a random open roll (/roll) (for items receiving no main spec bids)

Legendary Weapons

Legendary weapons, or any components required to create a legendary weapon, will be distributed to the team member most likely to contribute the greatest utility for the raid team, as determined by a consensus of the raid team following discussion. If the legendary weapon requires components, each component looted will be distributed to the designated team member until all required components are collected, at which point the raid team will select a new designated team member to begin working towards the legendary weapon.

Expectations:

Be responsive! Calendar invites are to be accepted, declined or put as tentative at least 2 days before raid (NLT Monday evening). The Raid Organizer needs time to figure out the team make up and determine if additional raiders (PUGs) are needed. If you do choose Tentative, please give raid membership filler and raid leader a tell or a mail. Be on time! Invites will start going out at 9:15pm server and we will fill up any spots with Standby raiders or Pug's at 9:25pm sever unless you notify Appodin prior to the raid. Be prepared! Have a raid nights supply of reagents, back-up/specialty food (Raid Materials person will have feasts), Healing/Mana Pots and have gear repaired. Also, please ensure the following required add-ons are enabled: Omen, Ventrilo, DBM. Some additional add-ons that may prove beneficial: Decursive, Grid/Clique. Be aware! Please watch the Tankspot videos on current and upcoming bosses we will encounter. Time spent explaining encounters equals less time on other bosses, so please know what to do!