raid sign ups

my guild uses group calendar mod for sign ups to raids and though it works pretty well it has a major down side that we can only set it to a number of each class. but we all know paladins heal or tank and warriors tank or dps.

do any of you guys use an ingame sign up that allows us to set a team make up of say

3 healers

2 tanks

2 mellee

3 ranged dps

after the number of places are filled then anyone else who adds name will be down as a reserve.

then we would be able to set a much fairer system of sign ups by all members|||There's no in-game addon that allows that, that I am aware of. I'd love to see one though.

On our website, we have folks sign up based on raid "role" for 10-person instances.

For 25-person instances, it is set up by class with the ability for someone to leave a "note" such as shadowpriests indicating they are DPS, Feral Druids, Protection Paladins, etc.|||Funny we're looking for the same thing. We're a casual guild with kara cleared, in ZA and gruul on farm... but we have a wide enough raneg of people that Guild Event Manager doesn't work that well for us since it is a first come, first served system.

We're looking for something that allows anyone to signup, but the raid leader to draft the 10 that they want since sometimes people who aren't ready for the raid signup.|||Use a website.

Use class officers.

Create a thread on the website that says "25 man raid ready" or "gruul raid ready"

Each class officer creates a thread and lists the people who are geared for 25 man raids in his/her thread.

This relieves some work from the raid leader.

It removes confusion.

It causes people to directly ask "how can i get better?" and then go work on it.

It also leads to gear reviews, which I perform many of for certain classes in our guild.

We do this, and unfortunately our site is down for server maintenance right this second or I would refer you to it.

we used gem previously, it isn't robust enough.

Also, when you apply the raid calendar on the site is well people start using the website and it makes for a great communication hub.|||Yeah, we looked into GEM because we had the "Oh i forget to check the site" issue... which I personally have no sympathy for.

Do you use raidspace or anything? Or just threads in the forums?|||we are setting up a kara ready rank and 25 man ready rank so we can get respective players to sign up first come first served its just the problems are 3 warlocks sign up b4 a mage or shad priest then 2 locks get upset.

but i suppose you cant please all the people all of the time|||We use Raidninja, with 2 cores for each class and 2 reserves. Also our Maintank, Raidleader and the guys who maintain the forums (2 Paladins) get auto-signed.

After that, invites are still handled according to raid needs, meaning if we do Leotheras on a day where the tanking warlock could only sign as reserve, because 2 guys were faster, he still gets prio.|||We used web-based signup, but the actual raid setup isn't always the same as the signups, as we need precise class/spec balances for some fights, and we sometimes have too many X or Y signed up, and need to sub people.|||Group Calendar, and set it to manual (not auto) confirmations. Then you can accept the signups a couple of days before.

To be honest, my last guild were calendar nazis. My guild, I set a general schedule for the week then never look at signups. Everyone knows what time invites go out, if they feel like raiding they will be there. that's really the bottom line - if you are having trouble with signups, it means you are having trouble motivating people to raid.

It goes something like:

- wed Gruul (if enough), Kara or ZA

- thu kara

- fri kara

- sat ZA

then the guys will organise another kara over the weekend for alts

Monday's are sometimes spent cleaning out the dregs in kara or premades for BGs|||The problem with saying "If they're interested they'll be online" is that you might have 15 people interested in Kara... so they all log on... and you have 10 spots. No biggee, right? But my guild is mostly made up of slightly older folks (25-35 and some over) so that they may well have better things to do that login and hope they have a raid spot. Or they will be planning their week and want to KNOW if they have a spot next Friday, because if not they're going out to a movie, or accepting some invite to have dinner, etc. They aren't going to keep everything open in the hopes of raiding, nor should they have to.