How To Ask Mr. Robot

Raid checkups are required for those interested in joining us for raids.  A raid checkup will consist of an officer pulling you up on WoW armory and on askmrrobot.com, asking you a few random test questions on the boss fights for the raid we will be doing, and if you are a deepser you will undergo a five minute dummy trial.  In this post I will explain the basics of using the robot to help optomize your current gear set for raiding.  Please follow these steps so that we can make your raid checkup go faster.

1)  Sign into WoW first and load your main talent spec build and equip your main spec gear set.  Then sign out of the game (you don't have to completely exit).

2)  Go to askmrrobot.com and under the gear optimizer for Cataclysm, look up your character.  In the gear optimizer screen, click on the green double arrows icon "Reload" to refresh your character's gear on the website.

3)  First thing to do here is to look at the top center of the menu, where it says "Choose a gearing strategy" in tiny blue font.  You want to make sure that whatever strategy is located beneath it is indeed a raiding or PVE (player verse environment) gearing strategy and not a PVP (player verse player) gearing strategy.  For instance my gearing strategy as a protection paladin tank is PvE: Avoidance Cap, Stamina.  If the gearing strategy they have preset for you is wrong, then click on it and you will be brought to a new screen.  Under the "Options" drop down menu at the top, you have a choice between "Raiding," "5 Man Dungeon" and "PvP."  Choose "Raiding" and your list of gearing strategies will change to raiding options below on the right-hand side.  Choose the gearing strategy that works best for you for raiding, then click the green wrench and screwdriver icon "Apply" at the top to confirm your gearing strategy and be brought back to the gear optimizer menu.

4)  Once there, click on the orange gear icon "Change" at the top.  

5)  Under Gem/Enchant/Consumable Options list, find "Use epic gems in", click on the drop-down menu and select "Nothing."  The reason for this is because I know not everyone has all their gear slots filled with ilvl 397 items, so I don't expect you to spend an outrageous amount of gold paying for epic Patch 4.3 gems to gem gear that you will be replacing soon.  

6)  Now make sure to also put a check mark to the left of "Exclude run speed enchants" and be sure to use a more useful enchant such as the +50 mastery boots enchant.

7)  We're finished in this menu, so click on the green wrench and screwdriver icon "Apply" to return to the optimization screen.

8)  On the left-hand side, you'll find your current equipped gear.  On the right-hand side you'll find your current gems, enchants and reforges that you have so far.  Everything that is highlighted in orange is something that needs to be changed in order to optimize your character for raids.  Click on the big "Optimize!" button.

9)  Everything highlighted in green are changes suggested by askmrrobot (based off elitistjerks.com) in order to fully optomize your current equipped gear for raids.  

10)  Once you finish the changes suggested, sign off WoW again and go back to askmrrobot.com and click on the "Reload" button again to make sure you have made all the correct changes.  If you are fully optimized then you are raid-ready!

I understand enchants are bloody expensive, so find out what mats you need, gather them and speak with Tides to get a free enchant or find out if there are any other maxed guild enchanters online.  Once again, our guild's raiding requirements can be found in our Perpetual Raiding Requirements blog post.