A tip for everyone who wants to do ICC/Ulduar runs:
1. Check your server regularly by /who Icecrown Citadel/Ulduar and ask them to join. Or ask them if they're grinding it for shards/fragments. If they are, big chance you can join the next few weeks.
2. Use Achievement forums on wowforums. These runs are usually the best because they're made by people farming shards/fragments.
3. If all fails, make your own runs, I made a guide to this before on WoWforums, it was about 70, but you can adept it to 80:
"Let me start off by saying: I've done this on level 60 on three characters and on level 70 on two characters thus far. Though I've also used this on low-level characters before, those situations were exceptions.
Now before we get the "What's the fun in being boosted?" question I shall answer it in a simple and effective way for people to understand: Epics. "Doesn't that take the fun out of the raids?" No, it's fun when it goes smooth. "Yeah, but you're not doing it fair" You're obviously jealous of my gear and therefore butthurt.
I'll use several examples that I've used over the last few years. To get boosted, you obviously need people of higher level than you and that's where most trouble starts. Why? Because no one wants to group with you 'cause you're "just level xx". The basic idea behind a boost is:
No one wants to do it for you, because people aren't nice, but selfish. That should also be your idea when making a boost. People want to get something out of it, even better is when they do not even see it as a boost, but as you doing them a favor by creating a group.
So what do we need before starting to make a group:
1. Information on drops (Legendaries, Mounts and possibly Reputation Items)
2. Information about Reputation and Factions.
3. Information about Attunement (At MC and BWL the main reason people joined, because I said they didn't need attunement, however if you say this, make sure you have an attuned warlock and two other attuned players ready).
4. Information on Achievements earned during the raid.
5. Information about the raid, you have to know how many healers and tanks (dps) you need minimally and you have to know the way through the raid. For most of the raids 60 & 70 you only need one tank and a healer and some DPS. For 80 raids you'll need two tanks and four healers and any extra DPS.
After looking up this information it's time to make a "recruitment message" which is basically putting everything you find noteworthy in a row, as an example I'll take Black Temple.
First let's take a look at a wrong recruitment message:
[2. Trade] [Guywhonevergetsaboost] Hey does any1 want to join ICC for fun?!?!
[2. Trade] [Everyone] No.
Though it has happened that some people are so extremely bored of waiting for heroic queues that they'll join, these groups tend to fall apart very quickly due to a lack of healers and tanks.
This is how it should look:
[2. Trade] [Stale] LFM Achievement/Reputation/Title run [Glory of the Icecrown Raider]. Can summon you there! Need <required people>, last spots!
Now you might've noticed that I've put in "Can summon you there!". This works because it gives others the comfort that they don't need to do anything except accepting a summon (Peopel are really lazy). Once you got enough people, you just head over there and use Have Group Will Travel OR send someone else there.
I've also used "Last spots". You should do this as soon as you got 10+ people for 25M's and 3+ people for 10M's. Why? Because people like to think you're waiting for them to join and that the raid is ready to go.
So now what? You got a whisper from one person in 5 seconds. DON'T INVITE HIM. If you do invite him he'll go: "Oh I thought you had more people, bye!". This is clearly not what you want, what I always do is tell them I'll invite them as soon as I got a group. A "group" being a full party. If this goes to slow people will leave again, so you have to be carefull with this. Having a tank and a healer as first two people that join helps a lot. because DPS are easy to find, so you'd be ready to go in no time.
"But oh god, some level 80-84 whispered me, what should I do with them?" First of all it's your raid, you can do whatever you want, BUT pissing people off is never a good idea. If you do not mind 80-84's in your group at least invite them after you got enough people in your group, just tell them you'll invite them as soon as group is ready. Because no 85 wants to join a group with twelve level 80's in it since the start. For some reason they do want to join if the first five/ten/fifteeen people are 85 and the rest is level 80.
On the masterlooting the entire raid, which is one of the toughest things to do, with constant whining from every other level 80-84 and sometimes the occasional 85. Make sure you mention what you want to reserve before you start. Loot rules I use:
"Level xx priority on anything but legendaries and tier parts"
"You can need on epic gems/reputation items that drop"
You do NOT want to be using masterloot on thrash, only on bosses. You also do not want to spend over five minutes distributing loot, neither do impatient 85's. However it is important that you follow your own loot rules, especially if there are other 80's in your group. As soon as boss dies, change to group loot so the others can move on and you can let others roll for them epics."
Hopefully that helps. The forum post was here:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/post/18497049486/edit
