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This comment should be required reading for anyone who wishes to raid. Period.

For a while I was in a pretty hardcore guild, and this was the norm. People used the third person to refer to themselves, called out cooldown usage and rezzes, etc. When I moved servers, I went to a less hardcore environment. (i.e. people don't get called out for mistakes instead general announcements are made that someone made a mistake, you don't get gkicked if you BRez without permission, that kind of stuff which to me was the norm before) On my first raid, I got chewed out by our raid leader for "clooging vent with useless chatter" because I called out when I cast my BRezes, Innvervated someone else, or had a cooldown that needed dispelled.

Raiding etiquette isn't common, unfortunately. People need to learn if they are going to be in the top raid instances.

Alot of raiders want the druids to save their brezes, or will call out specific ppl to brez. I for one do not rez the first guy to die unless its its the difference between wipe and success. Rez the 2nd or 3rd guy. Wait until a tank or good dps or another druid is down, then brez. Sometimes (actually quite often) we'll be raiding, maybe a 25, and there will be 2-3 druids, and 5+ calls for brezes go out. How are we expected to rez the really critical people when you asked us to brez the idiot who died in the fire a minute ago?

Pyro's tip is a great one. Also, I like the addon Rebirther while playing my druid, one of my healers or raid leading. Gives you an easy way to check what CRs and innervates are on CD, and you can just click on the druid's bar to ask him in whisper to innervate.

Anyone know how to get the dinovo mediapad workng with vent? Pfft G15 isn't all there is...

This this this times a billion. Anyone who calls out for someone else to apply an ability to them *without* specifying who they are had better have a damned distinctive voice--like being the only woman in the raid.

I'm a hardcore raider, so I'd like to take the opportunity to throw in my experience that it is 100% par-for-the-course to speak in the third person when announcing important things on Vent or making requests of others. The guild I'm in now has a lot of people who've been playing together for a long time, and even though I've only been there for a month there are already a lot of voices I recognize--but even still, *everyone* specifies who's talking when it could possibly matter (which tank is taunting, who's taking a brez, who needs Salv, which tank is popping a CD or needs one, etc.).