Monday, June 20, 2011  The Encounter Journal Has Killed Raiding
(Not)  With the Encounter Journal coming out, and every boss
ability laid out, bare and squirming, for all the PvE guilds to
dissect and build strategies around, the raiding game is done,
right? All that's left is execution. Might as well stop raiding
now. Right?   So, we're not a top guild by any means, we're
casual leaning a bit towards progression oriented, but we finish
content at our pace, and by the time we're pulling a boss, there
are a ton of guides, videos and a lot of information uploaded to
the usual suspects - certainly far more information is available
to us than is in the Journal. Alternate strategies, ideal specs
and glyphs, all that sort of thing.  With all that knowledge,
you would imagine we could clear content with no problem, and
yet, let's look at Nefarian.  The accepted ways to doing this
fight were just not working for us. Phase 1 and Phase 3, the way
they were planned and executed by most guilds just did not work
for us, s