Benevolent Thuggery - How to sign up for Raids

Your account menu looks like the image here and can be found at the bottom of the menu at the left of the forum page. This is where you Create your Characters, check your Guild Rank, edit your account, view each character's page, access mass raid sign up, and complete your Raid Availability.

In order to sign up for raids on the calendar, you need to do the following:

Be registered on this site
Create your characters on this site
On the pulldown menu, choose either your best geared toon, or the toon you hope to bring. Toward the bottom of the page, select your Preferred role. Enabling these will automatically bring up main spec when you sign up on the calendar.
Make sure that guild is set to Benevolent Thuggery in your character pages
If you don't see Benevolent Thuggery as an option in the guild pulldown, check to see what server you are set for. If your server is not Dragonblight (US) then contact an officer to request that it be fixed
Make sure your guild rank on this site is correct and if it is not, request a Rank Review on this site.
Sign up on the calendar on the forums with your best geared toon, or the toon you wish to bring.

We try to confirm the lineups for the 10 man raids by early in the week. Please be sure to sign up for the next week's raiding as soon as you can.
The color of your name tells you if you are:
- Confirmed - Please be online, in the raid and ready to go at least 15 minutes prior to start time.
- Pending - Your signup has not yet been processed by the Raid Coordinator.
- Waiting List - Please be online and prepared as though you were approved in case a confirmed member is no show or needs to leave. If for some reason you are no longer available as a stand-in (e.g. you are logging off), please whisper the raid leader or an officer before leaving the game.
- Denied - You will not be in this particular run.
At this time, we have no way of adding comments..such as "you will be in for a specific boss fight only" or the reason you are not in the raid. We are hoping the developer adds that feature soon.
Even if you see the group full (maximum group size already confirmed in Green), sign up anyway! We usually have one or more that have to sign out of the run and you may be next in line. If you do not sign up .... you won't go. Having exactly 10 people isn't the best situation for raid leaders. Instead, having a large pool of raiders is ideal because they can assemble the best group with the greatest chance of success. If we have people that are late at start time with small raiding pool, we then have to scramble to fill in. If no one is on the waitlist, we have to try and pull people in from whomever is online at the time. This usually takes longer than posted start time and can be avoided by having more raiders signed up than are needed.

We will start invites 30 minutes prior to the raid's scheduled start time.
We will start replacing people who are not present 10 minutes prior to the raid's scheduled start time. If you are waitlisted, being online and prepared as though you were confirmed increases the chances that we will ask you to fill in. Once a group has been finalized and begins, if you were waitlisted and haven't been called in, you are free to do other things.
We will try to be inside and buffing at 5 minutes prior to start time to allow us to start the first pull on time.

If you sign up and will be late please click the "I may be late" button and use the notes field to indicate how long you might be. You can also use the notes field (without clicking the late button) to let the raid leaders know anything else that might be important to them (specific bosses, wish to bring an alt, can bring any toon if you have several, etc).
If you sign up and are not going to be able to make it, even if it is on the same day, please remove your name from the calendar AND add a reply to the "raid lineup" post for that specific run letting the raid leaders know that you had to retract. It is better for everyone if you can give notice, even if that notice is 30 minutes before start time, instead of simply being a no show.

Incoming Guide Links

Raiding

Last Modified: 2/11/2011 11:21am
Contributors: Ginevra

Easy Link
BBCode Link: [guide=signup]How to sign up for Raids[/guide]
URL: http://www.benethugs.org/guide/signup

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[cell][size=10]In order to sign up for raids on the calendar, you need to do the following:
[ol][li]Be registered on this site[/li]
[li]Create your characters on this site[/li]
[li]On the pulldown menu, choose either your best geared toon, or the toon you hope to bring.  Toward the bottom of the page,  select your Preferred role.  Enabling these will automatically bring up main spec when you sign up on the calendar.[/li]
[li]Make sure that guild is set to Benevolent Thuggery in your character pages[/li]
[li]If you don't see Benevolent Thuggery as an option in the guild pulldown, check to see what server you are set for.  If your server is not Dragonblight (US) then contact an officer to request that it be fixed[/li]
[li]Make sure your guild rank on this site is correct and if it is not, request a Rank Review on this site.[/li]
[li]Sign up on the calendar on the forums with your best geared toon, or the toon you wish to bring.[/li]
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[li]We try to confirm the lineups for the 10 man raids by early in the week. Please be sure to sign up for the next week's raiding as soon as you can.[/li]

[li]The color of your name tells you if you are: 
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[li][#1f9f1f]Confirmed[/#1f9f1f] - Please be online, in the raid and ready to go at least 15 minutes prior to start time.[/li]
[li][#ffbf3f]Pending[/#ffbf3f] - Your signup has not yet been processed by the Raid Coordinator.[/li]
[li][#9f1fdf]Waiting List[/#9f1fdf] - Please be online and prepared as though you were approved in case a  confirmed member is no show or needs to leave.  If for some reason you are no longer available as a stand-in (e.g. you are logging off), please whisper the raid leader or an officer before leaving the game.[/li]
[li][#df1f1f]Denied[/#df1f1f] - You will not be in this particular run.[/li]
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At this time, we have no way of adding comments..such as "you will be in for a specific boss fight only"  or the reason you are not in the raid.  We are hoping the developer adds that feature soon.
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[li]Even if you see the group full (maximum group size already confirmed in Green), sign up anyway!  We usually have one or more that have to sign out of the run and you may be next in line.  If you do not sign up .... you won't go.  Having exactly 10 people isn't the best situation for raid leaders.  Instead, having a large pool of raiders is ideal because they can assemble the best group with the greatest chance of success.  If we have people that are late at start time with small raiding pool, we then have to scramble to fill in.  If no one is on the waitlist, we have to try and pull people in from whomever is online at the time.  This usually takes longer than posted start time and can be avoided by having more raiders signed up than are needed.[/li]
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[li]We will start invites 30 minutes prior to the raid's scheduled start time.[/li]
[li]We will start replacing people who are not present 10 minutes prior to the raid's scheduled start time.  If you are waitlisted, being online and prepared as though you were confirmed increases the chances that we will ask you to fill in.  Once a group has been finalized and begins, if you were waitlisted and haven't been called in, you are free to do other things.[/li]
[li]We will try to be inside and buffing at 5 minutes prior to start time to allow us to start the first pull on time.[/li]
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[li]If you sign up and will be late please click the "I may be late" button and use the notes field to indicate how long you might be.  You can also use the notes field (without clicking the late button) to let the raid leaders know anything else that might be important to them (specific bosses, wish to bring an alt, can bring any toon if you have several, etc).[/li]

[li]If you sign up and are not going to be able to make it, even if it is on the same day, please remove your name from the calendar AND add a reply to the "raid lineup" post for that specific run letting the raid leaders know that you had to retract.  It is better for everyone if you can give notice, even if that notice is 30 minutes before start time, instead of simply being a no show.[/li]
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