Today is your Warlock’s First Raid, A few Words of Advice

Written from level 60 experience, but I believe most still holds true today.

• Be prepared and on-time. That means you are sitting at Kara’s gates before the invite time or at the very least at the exact minute invites happen, repaired. You should have stocked on Wizard’s Oil, Food which either boosts your spelldamage (ideally) or regens HP (preferrably) or Mana, Spell Damage Elixirs, Super Health Pots and a handful Super Mana Pots.
• Curses: If you are two locks, make it out amongst you before the first pull. If you are alone, go with the following rule: If there are more mages than locks + spriests, cast CoElements. If there is an equal number, discuss it with the Raid Leader. In general, having a spriest with you will leverage both of your damage enough that you can spare a CoE to help the mages out.
• In any case, if CoE gets cast, ensure the mages know about it and adjust their aggro threshold accordingly.
• On the off-chance you would be three locks (which I doubt), the third curse should probably be Curse of Recklessness on the main DPS target, but make sure you discuss this with the tank and the RL beforehand.
• Remember to keep up a SS rotation. If you have no SS timer so far, get a soulstone timer add-on (no, I don’t recommend getting Necrosis just for this one task if you’re not using it).

You should also get oRA2 and BigWigs and set these up before the raid start. oRA2 is a raid communication add-on (equivalent to CT Raid Assist), it will among others streamline Main Tank and Main Assist lists and provide long cooldown counts as well (means you’ll get a second SS cooldown. No luxury in my pre-TBC experience). BigWigs is a BossMod, it has timers and warnings for most bosses in there. Make sure you test it and place the bars where you can pay attention to them.

Good luck in there, and remember, you’re raiding an area, not racing the DamageMeters. Go and make this former raiding warlock proud.

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