Your raid leader's role?

[iLive]

I am going to make a new guild for Cataclysm raiding (as you can see in my signature). That means I will probably end up as a raid leader inside this guild, but I've never experienced any healer being raid leader before (been in 5 different guilds). I'm pretty sure it's posible, but is it efficient? I suppose so if there's many other guilds who does it.

Therefor I would like to know what your main raid leader's role is (tank, healer, melee, ranged)?

[Ishimura]

From my experience healers tend to be too caught up with the health bars. But that's just MY experience!

I was raid leader (I'm dps) for the late part of TBC (early Hyjal and BT forward) and in the rest was always leaded by another dps.

[Tamato]

I've healed all raids and led most of em. From Hogger to Arthas.
The only problem I have with leading wrath raids is telling people a quote from ron white.
"LEAN THE WAY I LEAN G** **M*IT!"

[MikeT]

Pretty much every raid leader I've had from Molten Core to ICC (in guild at least) has been a healer. If you can lead, you can lead as a healer.

[Irony]

Main Tank, should always be who the RL is imo.

[Splenda]

We have two raid leaders that split the job, one is a paladin tank, and the other is a elemental/resto shaman. He doesn't usually play melee, because it's easier for him to see whats going on at range. He recently respecc'd to enhance for a change of pace, however.

[Joesgetndown]

Guild/raid leader was a bear, he left wow a few months back, so he promoted a holy priest to guild/raid leader.

[sicness]

The best raid leaders I've had have always been tanks. They not only control the tempo of trash but typically have vantage points that favor them taking the lead and 'barking out' orders.

[Addamus]

Role in the group doesn't/shouldn't effect whether you can raid lead. The deciding factor should be, do you know all of the fights well enough to explain them as well as explaining tactics. And by all of the fights, that even includes trash, not solely boss fights. Also, you need to be able to pay attention to 9 or 24 other people, and be capable to announce when something happens or needs done throughout any given fight. And be able to adjust to the loss of either certain members or a certain number of members. If you can do those things and still play your character to it's fullest potential, you can raid lead.

[volescue]

I am going to make a new guild for Cataclysm raiding (as you can see in my signature). That means I will probably end up as a raid leader inside this guild, but I've never experienced any healer being raid leader before (been in 5 different guilds). I'm pretty sure it's posible, but is it efficient? I suppose so if there's many other guilds who does it.

Therefor I would like to know what your main raid leader's role is (tank, healer, melee, ranged)?

There is a reason most top raiding guilds have class/role leaders. Don't make the mistake of burdening yourself with the responsibility of running the entire raid. Get some people to help you.

[sicness]

There is a reason most top raiding guilds have class/role leaders. Don't make the mistake of burdening yourself with the responsibility of running the entire raid. Get some people to help you.

While I agree that more than one person should run a guild, unless you're in an extremely serious guild looking to be world/server firsts then you shouldn't go to the lengths of class officers. Too many people at the officer role/higher authority can be much more harmful than good.

[Leylin]

Mine tanks.

[Hydramaster]

My guild/raid leader was a healer, which served us pretty well because since he was focused on healing bars, he could call people out when they failed, since failing to do something properly in an encounter often results in taking increased damage.

He also just seemed very situationally aware in general, always calling out ability CD and phase transitions. However, I found having a healer as raid leader worked well. Being able to call people out on the spot really makes them pay attention and try not to fail again

[Dedweight]

Main Tank, should always be who the RL is imo.

Mind expounding on your reasoning here?

All of my raid leaders have been healers or dps save one during TBC that was a Tank(switched to healer in Wrath). I've almost always preferred dps RL's(the RL is usually the ML as well) for no other reason than it doesn't slow the group down too much for a dps to hang back and pass out loot.

[Correlia]

Tank/Healer

[Sarcasm]

I disagree with a lot of people who think a tank should be the raid leader.

In my experience, the most important members of a raid are the tanks, and the tank healers. NEITHER of these roles should be the raid leader because they cannot have a full overview of the raid due to the nature of their role.

A ranged DPS typically makes the best raid leader, since they typically have a full view of the battlefield and are able to see what the tanks are doing and where they need a be. A melee DPS is doable too, but not as effective.

EDIT: That being said though, our vent usually consists of the raid leader telling the tanks or DPS what needs to happen, and the tanks coordinating between themselves to get the job done. Tanks need to be (and should be) very vocal in what they are doing.

[Irony]

Mind expounding on your reasoning here?

All of my raid leaders have been healers or dps save one during TBC that was a Tank(switched to healer in Wrath). I've almost always preferred dps RL's(the RL is usually the ML as well) for no other reason than it doesn't slow the group down too much for a dps to hang back and pass out loot.

Bias basically. I've always had the best success with RL who are the MT. Would always know who fucked up, would always know went wrong and would always know where to improve. The MT for me at least always seems to know whats going.