Joining a Raid

Find our raids, sign up, show up (prepared), get an invite, and kill some damn monsters! This page will guide you from your chair to the halls of Blackrock and beyond.

Schedule

You'll find an up-to-date schedule of upcoming events in a few places:

• In the Discord #📅・schedule channel
• The online Raid-Helper calendar 

Signing up

Note: You can currently only sign up for an event through Discord; the online calendar is read-only.

At the bottom of each event, you'll see role options in blue, or utility options in gray. For example:

Click the role (tank, melee, ranged, or healer) corresponding with what you'll be doing in the raid. The bot will then ask which class or spec you'll be playing to satisfy that role. Please tell it. The bot will remember this class/spec and automatically use it when you click the same role on future events. If you ever need the bot to forget, so that you can choose something else, click Reset Spec. If you want to sign up as Late / Tentative / Absent, you must first choose your role/spec, and then you'll be able to mark yourself as one of those. You'll be prompted for more information. Please tell us whats going on so we can plan appropriately. Having someone say Tentative does us little good without context. Thanks!

Which day do I sign up for?

Sometimes, a raid will be available on multiple days, for various reasons. Its likely we're running the same raid multiple times with different teams, for example. Unhinged does NOT DO static teams. We rebalance teams each week to maximize success and to achieve guild/team goals and to optimize how we're gearing and improving. We greatly value flexibility and ask that you always sign up for every raid night you can possibly attend. If there's preferences or complications, just reach out. Communication is priceless. 

Signing up all the time is annoying!

We got you. Head over to the ✅・rosters channel and you'll find a number of roster events with titles such as:

• Sunday Roster
• Thursday Roster
• ... etc

Register with one or more of these (the same way you would sign up for any other event) and from then on, any time a raid is posted on that day, you will automatically be registered for it. Boom! You can still opt out of attending any event you are automatically registered for by going to that event and clicking Absence. If ever your schedule changes, and you no longer wish to be signed up automatically for raids posted for a particular day, just find the roster event again, and click Unregister. It's that easy.

Showing up

Signing up is very important. It really helps raid leadership to plan, and provide all our raiders with the best experience possible, with the least downtime possible. The only thing more important than signing up, is then showing up! It is possible, however, to show up poorly.

How to not suck at showing up

Show up early

We expect raiders to be online and ready for an invite 30 minutes prior to raid start time. Raid start time is not the meeting time, it's the time we start pulling monsters. Meeting up time is 30 minutes before that. We begin replacing people 15 minutes prior to raid start time. We do this out of fairness to those people who put in the effort for others, and out of respect for their time. 

Show up to the right place

Don't be hanging out in Orgrimmar 10 minutes prior to raid start. Be at the designated meeting spot no later than 20 minutes prior to raid start. We often have summons available, but do not count on them. Consider them a luxury. Move those feet, catch that Zep, ride that bird, buy a 3rd party summon or mage port... do what you got to do to be where you need to be at the time you need to be there. All of your fellow raiders are depending on you. 

Show up prepared

Unhinged is a casual-core guild. That means we're actual gamers (though with lives), that try relatively hard with the limited game time we have. Casual-core doesn't mean we just bop around a raid hoping to catch some success from someone else's hard work. Every single raider should be bringing their best game. That means bringing a bag full of consumables to every raid night (unless it's a shoot-the-shit farm raid and leadership says don't worry about it or something). If you're not sure what to bring, reach out to your class lead, a raider you know that plays the same class, a Chaos Counselor, a raid lead, or go the whole way to Grolo if you need to (who might not have a clue but will know who will). 

Be in voice

Everyone must be able to hear and listen to raid leads. Speaking is welcome (at the proper times, more on that below) but not required.