Let the raids begin

6. Don't ask "How long until the next boss?" every ten seconds. You'll get there when you get there.

7. Raid chat: it's not for casual conversation anymore. Want to chat? Confused about something? Someone else just got the loot you wanted? Say it in guild. Or just send a whisper. Don't make the leader turn on /raquiet.

8. Talk to your class. If you are the only one of your class in the raid, talk to yourself. Figure out who is buffing what, when. Who's on crowd control? Who's healing the main tank? Which rogue kicks first? Which lock soulstones who? The answer to all those questions, and more, is in your class channel, not guild chat, not party chat, and most definitely, not in raid chat. If you don't have a class channel, make one.

9. Get your mods before the raid starts. Most guilds either have a suggested mod pack, or links and lists of what mods are required to raid on their forums. Again, someone didn't do all that work to stop mid-raid and wait for you to log off, download the mod, log back on and test it.

10. You pull aggro, you die. So, wait for sunders and assist the MA. MA stands for main assist, oddly enough. Don't go blasting at the first thing you see. If the raid uses icons, know the kill order. If you don't know the kill order or the MA, check and see what mob is dying fastest. Odds are that's the one you should be killing.

A subset of this rule is: if you aren't the tank, you aren't going to get healed. Don't expect it. Any heal is a gift and you should thank your healer nicely.

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