Quote Originally Posted by Simaril View Post
I think communication was really the only 'problem' but you know how DF groups can be sort of quiet and non-conversational - so then when someone does say something critical it just bedcomes negative...
I start off with simply asking "Want sleep or no sleep?" If no one says anything, I say "OK, Sleep it is." If still no one responds I'd say 9/10 times the kill order gets respected pretty well. And the run goes smooth. Most of the time I get lines like "oh good, someone who knows how to sleep!" from tanks. Strangely, Warriors are the ones that usually like sleep the most, which I would expect to not be the case, but since natural timing lets them drop 1-2 Overpowers before the sleep hits it works quite well.
I do have Repose macroed to a /emote for "/em puts <t> to SLEEP!" Which I think helps nicely so that players aren't confused about what I'm doing.

The exception is if there's a summoner in the group, I don't even bother asking then since they seem utterly incapable of actually targeting something and not breaking sleep (I am 90% sure it's the pets, they say they aren't supposed to break sleep, but I watch them do it with AE attacks).

I always assume, unless told otherwise that the BLM will not actually cast sleep or will not maintain sleep past the initial cast. This has proven false exactly 1 (that's "One") time. When I play BLM I am just as guilty about not maintaining the sleep, but the record will show that I am pretty terrible at BLM.