Changes: Raid

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Raids are parties of 6-40 people divided into 2-8 groups of up to 5 players. The terms raid and raiding primarily and traditionally refer to PVE raid-specific instances and zones. If you're the party leader, you can convert your group into a raid group by accessing your "Social" Panel, selecting 'Raid' and choosing "Convert Group to Raid." From then on, anyone you invite will join your raid group (up to a maximum of 40).

Keep in mind that raid groups do not receive quest rewards unless the quest calls for a raid. This is to prevent people from creating very large groups in order to do normal quests that do not need raid groups to complete. You also receive an experience reduction for any killing you do in a raid group. Again, this is to prevent people for using raid groups in situations where normal groups should be sufficient. This experience reduction is simply that you do not get the usual "group XP bonus" that you get when sharing XP in a Party group.

In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, all 25 man raids will also be available to complete with 10 players. This is so that more players will get to see end game content (Even the Lich King encounter will be available as a 10 man raid).^[1]

Raid instances

See also: World raid encounters

Azeroth raids

10-person:

20-person:

25-person:

40-person:

Outland raids

25-person:

Future release raids

10 and 25-person:

Naxxramas II
Vault of Archavon
Chamber of Aspects (multiple wings)
The Eye of Eternity (Nexus raid)
Ulduar Raid
Azjol-Nerub Raid
Icecrown Citadel

Starting a raid

The leader of a party can convert the group to a raid by clicking the "Convert to Raid" button in the Group window. At this point it becomes a "group of parties" with up to 8 parties, each with 5 characters. The leader of the raid can drag characters between groups to move them to different parties; typically, this is done to achieve some strategic goal such as distributing shamans and paladins to share totems and auras or warriors with rogues for battleshout. The leader can promote other characters, which gives them the abilities to invite and kick from the raid and also use the broadcasted raid warnings (using the "/rw" command).

See Raiding for Newbies for further details.

Raid mods

Main article: Raid AddOns

There have been many mods produced specifically for raiding, most notably CTRaidAssist.

External links

Info on the official WoW site:

Raidaholics Raid guides

References

^ http://www.worldofwar.net/articles/413359/wrath-presentation-all-the-facts-none-of-the-fluff

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 Keep in mind that raid groups do not receive quest rewards unless the quest calls for a raid.  This is to prevent people from creating very large groups in order to do normal quests that do not need raid groups to complete. You also receive an experience reduction for any killing you do in a raid group.  Again, this is to prevent people for using raid groups in situations where normal groups should be sufficient. This experience reduction is simply that you do not get the usual "group XP bonus" that you get when sharing XP in a Party group.
-In ''[[World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King]]'', all 25 man raids will also be available to complete with 10 players. This is so that more players will get to see end game content (Even the [[Lich King|Arthas]] encounter will be available as a 10 man raid).<ref>http://www.worldofwar.net/articles/413359/wrath-presentation-all-the-facts-none-of-the-fluff</ref>
+In ''[[World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King]]'', all 25 man raids will also be available to complete with 10 players. This is so that more players will get to see end game content (Even the [[Lich King|Lich King]] encounter will be available as a 10 man raid).<ref>http://www.worldofwar.net/articles/413359/wrath-presentation-all-the-facts-none-of-the-fluff</ref>
 == Raid instances ==

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