Why raiding is so much fun

I was originally gonna write a post in which I did a lot of QQing about my class. But then I realized: NO ONE WANTS TO READ THAT! So instead, I’m gonna write a much better post. (If anyone wants to read my rant, please let me know and I will e-mail it to you.)

It took me a while to think about this–why raiding is so much more fun for me than are 5-mans, soloing, or PvP–but I eventually came up with a few reasons.

A) Coordination: It takes a lot of effort to organize and successfully pull off a 10-man raid. I don’t even want to think about how much work it would take to put together and adminstrate a 25-man. I’m glad I’m not raid leader. Our RL does a great job every week putting this thing together, and it often becomes much more fun than anything else partly because it’s so well organized.

B) Camaraderie: Maybe it’s because the raid’s so well organized, I don’t know–but I really enjoy working with my fellow raiders every week that I’m in the group. We’ve definitely, I think, become fairly good friends, and really have a good time during the raids.

C) Synergy: As a mage, I mesh with many other classes well. For example, locks can pop a Curse of Elements on the target (+80 Fire), paladins can throw BoW, BoS, BoK on me (lots of choices) and sometimes are nice enough to use Judgment of Wisdom on their targets. Hunters have that lovely +5% to all damage bonus, too, which is nice. Shaman totems are amazing: Wrath of Air for the +101 damage, *Mana Spring/Tide*, and the other totem which I can’t remember that adds 3% to your crit chance and 5% to hit. Druids, of course, have the most powerful buff in the game. In the raid last night, there was at least 1 fight where I was over +1000 fire damage buffed, and it was partly due to the awesome synergy that a mage has with other classes.