General
1. Be Dedicated and Reliable
- Have an idea of what your role is for any given fight (especially progression)
- The raid leader's explanation should compliment your own research
- Be online, signed up, and ready a minimum of 15 minutes before the raid beings
- Have the appropriate flasks, potions and food
- Mods installed and configured properly
- Connected to Ventrilo
- If you are going to be late make an effort to notify the raid leader
- Often the raid leader will hold a spot for up to fifteen minutes if they know you will be late
2. Know Your Class
- Do your own research
- Know your rotation and priority queue
- Follow appropriate websites
- Always strive for improvement
3. Treat Each Other With Respect
- Maintain a positive attitude throughout the raid
- Refrain from excessive profanity and degrading remarks
- Be present for the entire raid
- No Ninja AFKing without a very good reason, as you may be replaced
- Don't join a raid if you won't have time to finish it
- Extend the same courtesy you show to guild mates to non-guild players
- Be open for constructive criticism
4. Use Ventrillo
- Ventrillo must be installed and setup properly
- Feel free to constructively contribute to raid strategies
5. Stay current with the Six-Minutes Website
Performance
Performance is your responsibility. There are several tools available to ensure that your character is properly geared, enchanted, gemmed and doing appropriate DPS/HPS/TPS. Here are a few:
1. External Tools (Run outside of World of Warcraft)
- Rawr
- Suggests gear upgrades, gems and enchants
- Version 4 runs on both both PC and Mac
- Simulation Craft
- Accurate performance simulator - this will tell you what your character is capable of
2. Websites
- World of Logs Reports
- A very in-depth look at what occurred during any boss encounter - including wipes
- MMO-Champion
- General WoW information along with details about your class and raid encounters
- Elitist Jerks Class Forums
- Contains very detailed analysis of classes, items and everything else WoW
3. In-Game Addons
- GearScore
- Very useful for gauging your performance vs someone else of the same class
- Recount
- An extremely important portion of gauging performance
- Skada
- Another damage meters mod like Recount
- Includes threat meters as well
Officers are here and happy to help, but should be considered a secondary source of information.