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keep up. The same is true for DPS
queueing as healers for shorter
queue times. While some healing/
dps classes share similar gear/
stats, most don’t. Be sure you have
enough mana to heal through fights
and have the healing spec. Do be
actually fill the role you queued for,
or, again, you’ll end up kicked from
the group. Healers and tanks are
too important of roles for people
to not queue appropriately.

#5

Rule 5: If you don’t know

how the fight works, ask.
Everyone has to start
somewhere, and in LFR people
aren’t as angry about things if
you just ask upfront how the boss
fight works. There are some fights

#3

Rule 3: Don’t pull for the tanks,

and if you are the tank, don’t pull
the boss before the raid is ready.

that if you, even as dps, screw

#4

up a mechanic, you will wipe the

Rule 4: Don’t queue for a

raid. No one minds the wipes

role you aren’t geared for.

as long as it’s because the raid

Seriously, if you’re geared for
DPS and have a tank as your second

failed in some way rather than

a reason, and so unless you’re

spec, don’t queue as a tank until

that a bunch of people new to the

filling that role, don’t pull things.

you’ve done the work in dungeons

game/fight didn’t ask what they

Sometimes accidents happen, but

to have a second set of gear for

needed to know before the pull.

doing this taxes the healers and

tanking. The stats on tank gear

frequently pisses off the tanks

make it so that you don’t drop your

enough that they’ll leave the

health too quickly for healers to

group. When the group is forced

heal you through. Poorly geared

you should always carry a few flasks

to wait for a new tank because

tanks or people not geared as tanks

and food appropriate to your class. If

of you, they’re also likely to kick

at all will find themselves quickly

you’re a hunter, be prepared with a

you from the group so that the

kicked from the group if the healers

pet that can provide buffs to fill in for

new tanks won’t leave too.

complain you’re too squishy to

the missing class buffs. In raids, you

Tanks are called tanks for

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#6

Rule 6: Have food and a flask
This is more true for when you

raid with a group than in an LFR, but