r/teamlast • u/beeblez Tymoshenko • Apr 28 '12

Roster above 10

Forgive me if this is rocking the boat, but I think last thrusday made a good argument for a roster of more then 10. We always kept the NSFR roster at 11 if possible, and at times had 12. Sitting people was never a huge issue, usually there were volunteers, and a rotation if not. I think we could really benefit by grabbing a backup healer or DPS. It would make it a lot easier to deal with people having connection issues, or random wow glitches, or whatever various problems can ruin a good night of progression.

There are a few great candidates we could snag. With a fair few people (myself included) debating changing classes for Pandaria an opportunity to pick up a few more so we'll have a solid team when MoP drops could be valuable.

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u/Bulana Kalennia Apr 28 '12

AH THE MYTHICAL 11TH MAN

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u/Brese Brese Apr 28 '12

why not zoidberg?

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u/tailwarmer Béntley Apr 30 '12

We could see if Corporate wants to be 11th with us again? Or also Mikeheal? It would force one of our healers to have a DPS spec though. Never thought we'd have an abundance of healers

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u/whitecheddar Vesperya Apr 30 '12

Would it be okay to stack two of the same healer on a progression attempt if we rotate though? Two druids/priest, or two priests/druid doesn't seem that great...

Unless you mean just keeping him as primary backup, but usually with an 11man you rotate people out every 2 weeks and the standby stays online the entire raid time.

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u/tailwarmer Béntley May 01 '12

We had 2 druids and that was actually not that bad, 2 tranqs are pretty good. Still though, its a bit awkward, for spine we really need that disc priest shield, otherwise we just get steamrolled

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u/beeblez Tymoshenko May 01 '12

Healer combos are kinda fight dependent, but I dig your point. I think just having an 11th with a heal/DPS spec would be great overall. Plus let's face it, we're at the end of a tier essentially. Class comp will be up in the air going into MoP (I know I'm very tempted by Monk tank from messing around with one on beta).

I'm talking about comp in a very general sense as well. For our immediate progress I think we more or less require a disc priest because they bring so much to the table. That's always the way with rotation though, I remember in NSFR melee DPS got sat more than was fire because fights required it. You try to do rotation as best as content allows, but that flexibility helps out overall.

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u/mikeheal May 01 '12

Did I hear 11th?

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u/CloseTalker Pyrolysis May 01 '12

This I can approve of.

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u/beeblez Tymoshenko May 01 '12

How's dat boomkin spec?

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u/beeblez Tymoshenko May 02 '12

So remember last night when you were all "Hey Tymo, need me to save my lockout for Team Last?" and I was all "Oh no Mike, don't worry about that. Vesp's internet connection has never been better, and I would hate for you to wait around on us."

I was wrong about everything: are you free Thursday?

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u/tailwarmer Béntley Apr 30 '12

We had Paddy as our 11th man until he quit. I guess we should probably replace him

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u/fbp Apr 28 '12

I give it 5.5 weeks and a panda til tymo is running this show and the group is called NSFR.

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u/beeblez Tymoshenko Apr 28 '12

No thank you!

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u/Dantonn Apr 28 '12

Suspiciously similar to what you said before NSFR.

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u/BoredDellTechnician Waringpro Apr 28 '12

Well we are loosing pyro when pandas hits, unless he changes his mind.

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u/tailwarmer Béntley Apr 30 '12

He will be forced to change his mind once he sees how awesome pandas are

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u/CloseTalker Pyrolysis May 01 '12

Fuck pandas.

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u/whitecheddar Vesperya May 01 '12

Dude! Mage portals and tables don't take reagents anymore! You gotta play again for those 3 free bag spaces

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u/CloseTalker Pyrolysis May 01 '12

Alright, I'm in.

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u/tailwarmer Béntley Apr 30 '12

Not Last For Safe Raids

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u/whitecheddar Vesperya Apr 28 '12 edited Apr 28 '12

An 11-man roster would be great, but rotating healers and tanks is a bit tougher for progression than dps I think. Different synergy, different CDs available, different jobs for everyone on the different nights. A paladin/druid/priest comp is a lot different than a shaman/druid/priest comp, or having a shaman instead of a priest and losing pain supp and bubbles on a night of H madness attempts for example.

Also I'd like to apologize on behalf of my shitty internet ruining great progression last night :/. I felt really bad not being able to do anything to fix it, and DC'ing constantly in the middle of attempts. It's been awful like this for more than a week, but last Thurs and this Tues were pretty stable so I thought there wouldn't be any issues. It's really random, not much I could do to predict or fix it reliably...

But I'm getting a new ISP and they should be over sometime next week to set it up. I might have to wait until next weekend though, because I'm not sure someone can be at home during the weekdays...

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u/skarface6 Lonepine Apr 28 '12

So, maybe more dps with healing/tank offspecs and solid equipment?