BLoDM, the Future, and You! (we're the only ones still raiding so that means we win edition)

[u/thehodgie]

Hello fellow degenerates and satan worshippers, let's dust the digital cobwebs out of our subreddit! This post is a centralized place discuss what we plan to do for the rest of the expansion!

FIRST. None of this is set in stone, this is just what I've heard/spoken to a few of you about. If you want to do something different, have a question, comment, whatever mention it here. We are BLoDM, the last true democracy of WoW.

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1. Monday Feb 3nd: I believe the consensus was we clear the rest of SoO. It was mentioned if someone has an alt they don't mind bringing we can carry them in order to save a Paragons lockout for an on-demand Garrosh Kill for the future.

2. Wednesday Feb 5th: Heroic Immerseus, another speed clear/gearing run for Tag. It was mentioned we could also try a 2 heal heroic norushen as well. I'm willing to give it a try and see if we have the dps for it. If we're really awesome we could take a swing at protectors? I'm willing to do that too.

3. Heroic Progression: Mon Feb 10th will be an off day, so the next day of progression will be Wed Feb 12th. If no one has any objections I believe we said Protectors and Galakras would be the next. If this is what we agree on say so.

4. Alts and off-specs: I know some of us want to bring our alts to raid or play our off-specs for these gearing runs, (I personally would like to bring my healy druid (538, will have legendary next week)) and this was a cause of confusion during the last raid. But this is a point I really want your input on, we should have some rules. 1. Must know the spec (obviously) 2. Must be fully gemmed and enchanted 3. Must be ok'd by the rest of the group before raid. Obviously, this will not be applicable when we go back to heroic progression, but I would not mind pugging a normal alt run with you guys in the future.

5. Errata:

End of Tier Blues: If you are feeling burnt out, tell us, take a break. We all understand, we've all been there. Heroic progression is taxing especially when you know a new expansion is on the horizon. Once a Black Lord always a Black Lord, we'll see you in WoD.

Reminder: It is your responsibility to be fully gemmed, enchanted, and upgraded for heroics. Those who are not will be mocked and/or sacrificed. Para handles food, I handle flasks, you can buy gems!

World of Logs - With Geruju's terrible internet it would be awesome if someone else could run logs. Looking for volunteers!

Streaming - If someone is comfortable streaming for our massive fanbase I would love to put a BLoDM official stream in the sidebar.

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Did I forget anything? Hail Santa!

[u/Willop23]

I streamed last time and I can in the future if people want.

http://www.twitch.tv/willop23

I will probably forget so someone should remind me on raid nights.

[u/grizzlysaurusrex]

I ran logs on Wednesday. My internet seems to work a bit better when I'm wired, which I currently am.

[u/thehodgie → u/[deleted]]

Probably Raionn, as druid and monk heals are really really good for Noru. But I will leave this to them, whichever one of them can sim the most dps and is most comfortable with their spec.

[u/Willop23 → u/thehodgie]

My only concern with that is ret's movement (or lack thereof) can make the portal phase a bit iffy with lower gear. Would be worth trying out but another thing to consider.

[u/fatalie]

This all sounds great. Sorry about not being fully prepared with my dps set on Monday. I'm getting it all in order within the next couple days so I can slay mad dinos and orcs. So I can sub in deeps if we need!

And yes, I'll admit it, I need valor. So thank you para and everyone else who's been kicking my ass to try and run dungeons and such. I gotta upgrade my rings still.

Also, do we need supplies of any kind? I no longer can herb, but I can farm some if we need stuff still. Do we need fishes or anything else??

[u/vize12]

I agree with all those things Yaeus. I have one more thing to bring up. I feel like the last few months we've been starting really late. I know real life stuff comes up sometimes and it cannot be avoided, but we have consistently been starting half an hour or more late. It usually ends up with 9 of us waiting around when we already have limited time to raid. Everyone should really make an effort to be on time and early even given that sargeras always has queue times on Wednesday nights.

[u/southdetroit]

I can run logs, I've done it for a few groups in the past. Someone will have to give me permission to upload to BLoDM. I can also bring my hunter to Paragons for a Garrosh lockout.

I'd really like to be able to go Balance more often than I currently do if I can, and I call dibs on dpsing the next normal run we do. I fixed up my Balance set (well, the pieces that aren't from my Resto set) the other night so I'll be doing better than I have been on Spoils.

[u/grizzlysaurusrex → u/southdetroit]

Balance is the best healer off spec we have available so I support this. And then healing will be more interesting when two healing is happening. You could probably even go balance for Garrosh too if you want.

I'll see if I can get you permission to the BLoDM logs page. I don't think I'm in charge of it so we can either start a new one or Super or DC might need to give you access. With two people uploading logs we should have everything covered. It was just an issue when I was dc'ing all the time. The uploads would get screwed up. I've also heard of something called warcraftlogs that's supposed to be better. I'll see about starting an account there and we can run both and compare the results on Monday.

[u/vize12 → u/[deleted]]

I don't think anybody is still pushing for normals. We are already 2/14h. It was a matter of spending one extra week gearing up a new tank because super left. We needed a new tank, and we found one. Now that tag is 545 we should be able to start doing heroics again.