Hello, I am a new raid leader for a long term guild that composes of a mix of old raiders and new raiders with the expansion. I'm new to analysing faults and checking over logs for improvements so I'm hoping to get some assistance from raiders here. Dragon soul I just dps'd and offered input to the raid leader when I felt appropriate. Now I'm in the position of being in charge and there are a few issues with my team and I'm unsure how to go about handling them. Poor dps is the biggest thing I'm looking for help with, as well as perhaps working out if there are things as a whole our team can do better. We aren't in a position to drop out members to bring new people in (for now). For now I'd like to give everybody an equal chance to improve what they are doing. Our biggest issue outside of dps has been raid attendance - It's pretty much out of peoples hands, but we haven't had full raid attendance in a while from people having work assignments to exam finals and even bouts of sickness. I think the lack of raid time is a big a problem as the dps
So to get right down to it, our team is struggling on Elegon normal right now. Thursday night was our first three hour raid night specifically on one boss in quite some time, but we also had 2 pugs followed by a dps losing their internet connection and having to be replaced by a third pug. Our best attempt was about 35% hp with 1 minute on the enrage timer and this is the only time we made it to the final transisition
Strategy - 2 tanks, 6 dps, 2 heals. Tank 1 stays on the boss until the protector dies - tank 2 stays outside (no stacks) until the protector spawns, tanks swap positions, easy peasy. Ranged dps stay on the edge, clearing stacks by jumping. 2 dps (in ideal circumstances, unholy dk and shadow priest) stay on the boss at all times, whilst putting dots on each protector with minimal down time. For the first log I'll post, we had both shadow priests do this. Phase 2, everybody gets to their positions, dps the boss as much as possible, kill adds, immediately back on the boss with stacks being cleared, down 4 sets of adds, dps boss during final wave, run out. Get the beacons down, tank 1 picks up the adds, tank 2 immediately goes to elegon, dps burn the adds down except for the elegon dps (the unholy dk would pop an unholy blight on them). Rinse, repeat. Call for wipes if a third protector spawns before phase 2 or if we don't down 4 sets of adds during phase 2. Pre pot, save major cooldowns (army, heroism) for final transition.
Our composition that night had me as a backup tank seeing as our off tank was one of the people we had to replace.
For the majority of our raids I've been the off tank, but it's clear at this point that I'm also one of our best dps and it's going to be most valuable to the raid to have me dpsing. I'm going to post logs of Thursday night in which I was tanking. People may point out overall dps being low, but we were also down two dps (which includes myself). I have faith in our team to down the boss if a couple of specific people can just up their game.
Our ideal composition (with armory links). Since we've had pugs, you may want to ignore people not listed here from the logs.
Tank1 - Deek (blood dk) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...er/Deek/simple
Tank2 - To be replaced (I've dropped him from the team)
Dps - AndyF (unholy dk) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...r/Andyf/simple (Personal note, working on the gloves)
Dps - Bsillychilly (shadow priest) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ychilly/simple
Dps - Drèw (ele shaman) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...%C3%A8w/simple
Dps - Malanek (frost/unholy dk) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Malanek/simple
Dps - Leikai (ww monk) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../Leikai/simple
Heals - Athala (resto shaman) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte.../Athala/simple
Heals - Tygrandar (resto druid) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...mer/Tygrandar/
Heals - Myztweaver (heal monk) http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...tweaver/simple
In general, I'm happy with most of our team. Our dps monk Leikai however, is not playing to his potential and I'm getting frequent complaints about him. I have no idea how dps monks play, so I'm not in a position to tell him what he's doing wrong. For Elegon specifically, Malanek struggles with killing the fourth wave of adds. I have no idea why he is struggling. He has begun to raid as unholy, but was previously frost. I have told him basic things such as pre emptive death and decay, I've gave him macros for pet attacks that causes the pet to attack his current target and got it tied to all his melee attacks (seeing as assist switching is slow). He still struggled on his own and with his gear he shouldn't. A tank assists him, but really shouldn't have to. He ended up switching to frost again just for the burst provided but myself as an unholy dk, I have no issues. Maybe it's just because I'm slightly better geared than him? I'm also aware that our resto shaman underperforms, but she has high latency. She is not a crutch for us and has never been responsible for a wipe so I'm not concerned with that for now. Our heals are doing excellently, our main tank is excellent. I hope to recruit a capable tank over the next 2 weeks (taking a break from raiding for the holidays). So for now, I'd like to see if I can get any constructive criticism or advice on how to improve my raid team.
Logs
This is our full night of attempted progression on Elegon. Drew's net cut halfway through the fight so we had to replace him. We were missing a tank and healer so our healer (tygrandar) who usually dps's this fight as a boomkin stayed heals and we got a pug. So if there are any comments, please keep in mind that the pugs contributions aren't noteworthy since we won't see them again.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/2w00sacc2khku059/
This is a log of our mostly full team trying all the fights except elegon with myself on dps. We had Drew missing for exam finals and Bsillychilly was travelling up the country via airplane that night.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/h2w44wk1dlsi5b3u/
And if anybody cares to go the extra length for opinions to offer, our full raid logs can be found here - http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/108929/
So in closing, I am going to be very grateful to any advice and comments given which may help our group. If I can get constructive criticism to help improve our monk I will be very happy and any suggestions for Elegon will be appreciated (unless its just a numbers problem, then we're fine if we have our full team and the monk pulling his weight. I do believe that the 21st nerf will help us out a lot). So thank you in advance to any posters who help out.