Raid Leader preparation checklist

• Invite all 10/25 people.
• Find replacement for those who did not show.
• Make sure everyone is going to the same place.
• Find replacements for those who are saved.
• Tell people to log onto vent.
• Answer "I will take it into consideration" to all whispers.
• Set loot type, change loot threshold and give someone master looter. Give them assistant so they can /rw.
• Give assistant to all who need to mark targets or /rw
• Ask to get raid leader role back since you probably misclicked in the previous step.
• Repeat the two previous steps until done.
• Set difficulty
• Set all tanks as "Main Tank" in the UI. A lot of supporting addons (like healbot and vuhdo) depends on this.
• Tell the warlock to hurry up, since he's summoning slackers who failed at hitting accept the first time.
• Compare the vent list with people in the raid and make sure the last two also log on vent.
• Tell people to buff up and repair.
• Summon those who had to go back to Dalaran to pick up class consumables.
• Make sure everyone has the buffs they need.
• /readycheck
• Wait 5 minutes until everyone is no longer on the phone
• someone should have pulled the first wave of mobs by now, resurrect those who died.
• /readycheck
• Good luck.