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The Raid Finder is now live and active. This tool is probably the single greatest boon to casual and solo players added to WoW since … well, I’d have to struggle to think of something more exciting. If you can’t commit to a raid night or more than one raid night in a single week, the Raid Finder means you can still participate in the raiding game. Sure, your item level may be a few steps behind players involved in traditional 10-man and 25-man raiding. But now with the glorious Raid Finder, you can actually take part in the story.
Of course, for newer players, using the Raid Finder can be intimidating, especially if you’ve never spent any time in PUG raids before now. Grouping up at random with 24 other players is intimidating. You can’t just ignore that; jumping into a raid group that has expectations and demands about you can be a scary thing.
With that in mind, here’s a handful of tips to make sure your Raid Finder experience goes as smoothly as possible.
Get Deadly Boss Mods and voice chat. Not every Raid Finder group will use the same addons and tools, of course, but you can expect most groups will want you to have Deadly Boss Mods. Yes, there are alternatives. However, Deadly Boss Mods still seems the most popular go-to. When a raid leader asks you to get a different mod, you might as well. But have DBM installed before you hit the Raid Finder button.
Voice chat is a little more difficult, since there’s a much wider array of available voice chat clients. Still, you should have Ventrilo and Mumble already installed. I prefer Mumble, personally, but I encounter Ventrilo among PUGs much more frequently.
While nothing in Blizzard’s official tools demands you have these tools, the random groups you encounter will expect everyone to be DBM and voice chat ready.
Have food and flasks. Remember all those annoying mods that do things like whisper “Joe-Bob ain’t drunk his flask”? Well, they’re back — and probably with good reason. While Raid Finder difficulty is easier than normal raiding, you still want every little numerical advantage you can get.
More than a few Raid Finder groups will have incredibly generous folks who provide cauldrons and food for everyone. But don’t bank on that happening. Try to have your appropriate buff food and flask ready to go.
Be polite and patient. Being polite and patient with your group probably sounds like silly advice, but what blew me away about Raid Finder so far is that groups are pretty cool. I’ve found the stress level to be much lower than even 5-man dungeons. I couldn’t tell you why that’s the case, but I haven’t encountered anyone who’s really irked me so far.
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