I’ve always liked World of Warcraft battlegrounds and arena more than any slice of PvE content, but lately, as my friends left the game, I didn’t get so much joy in cracking other player’s skulls in PvP. So, I decided to try raiding. But as I was a total noob at raiding and PvE so I started working with a WoW raid guide at least to learn the basics. However, it was very hard for me to join a raid because of the lack of instance achievements, but the first thing this WoW raid guide taught me, was how to join a raid. So, here’s what you need to do.

1. The first trick you can pull off to join a good raid without the requirements is tell the one who’s recruiting, that your main character has all the list of achievements needed and you know that tactics for each boss. Of course, if you don’t have a main toon with achievements, just dig one up from wowarmory.com and tell the leader to have a look for themselves.

2. Tell the leader that you’ll bring treats for the raid. Fish Feast, Flasks of the Frost Wyrm and Flasks of Endless Rage are the most desired of players and sometimes are quite expensive. So, it’s worth investing a few hundreds to join a raid. Also, as this WoW raid guide has taught me, you can mention your high gear score if you have end game arena gear. They don’t have to know you’re fully PvP equipped and even if they do, they’ll know you have some skills.

3. This might be the best action that you can do to join a good raid without achievements. Simply bribe the leader! Tell him that you are willing to pay a certain fee to join. Or, even better, tell the leader you don’t need any gear since you just want the achievement. Trust me, getting the achievement for an instance it much more important than any piece of gear.

So, if you would like to join an elite raid that goes through Icecrown Citadel or Trial of the Crusader without a wipe, try these tricks I just wrote here, if you’re having trouble because of the lack of achievements. However, it’s a good thing to be prepared, so to learn everything about raiding in World of Warcraft, you should really take a look at the WoW raid guide I’ve been using. It contains everything a raider should know.

Here’s the WoW Raid Guide I’ve been working with. Also, here’s a great WoW Instance Guide Review.