Hi Everyone,
Super excited for WOTLK and am stoked to come back to classic.
Quick question : What is the best way to lead a pug in wrath classic?
Lets say on Tuesday I create a 25 man and we are only able to down the first boss in naxx. Does that mean I have to wait until the next week/reset to start a new pug (since I 100% won’t be able to get the same 25 people again)? Or can I simply start a new pug , lets say on Thursday and say we are locked to X boss? (like how it has been in retail for a long time).
Being the grown man in my 30s that I am now, my play time has changed dramatically. I can no longer pick specific times / days during the week to raid, thus cannot really raid in a guild efficiently. In retail for the last few expansions, I’ve always just made my own pugs since you’d only be locked to x number of bosses being downed - not a specific raid ID.
Thanks everyone! Look forward to seeing you in wrath!
[Disclaimer: Wrath Classic changes means I can’t be sure but…]
Raid lockouts basically lock the players involved with that raid to what has been completed in that raid ID. If you and your group kill, say, Patchwerk and nothing else? You and the other 24 players are locked to Patchwerk, and nothing else. HOWEVER if anyone, anyone, from those 25 players goes and continues the raid, even without any/all those 24 other players, it will continue the lockout…
Basically, if you kill 1 boss on Wednesday, and someone else reforms the group or continues the raid before you raid again, you will be locked to any bosses they kill. If nobody raids, it will just be at the same point it was earlier.
Finding new players for your raid, once a boss is dead, might be more difficult in wrath than retail (at least up to heroic, pretty sure mythic still has raid IDs) just because they don’t want to be locked to previous bosses. In retail, you can always go back and kill bosses you missed. In wrath, you are locked to anything that has been done when you enter (After a minute, or hitting “accept” anyway)
Edit: You can’t then go join another group that has also cleared Patchwerk and nothing else. Every raid has a unique ID that you are locked to, rather than the bosses themselves as is the case in retail.
Hope this helps
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O wow, this seems like pugging will be quite rough at first.
Thanks so much for the write-up! I appreciate it!