kara gear alone will greatly help~ esp if u have kara on farm and your MT is decked.

well you dont really need to kill attumen actually. or maiden. Basically if pple dont need stuff from them anymore u can do Moroes, Opera, curator, Prince. leaving nightbane + netherspite the next day. Illhoof is also optional once your feral druid gets the staff, pally gets the bp and resto druid gets the healing belt.

My guild starts with moroes, maiden, curator, aran on one day and the next day it's chess, prince, nightbane. We skip netherspite altogether because it's a pita. :S we plan to skip maiden soon and aran once i get my shoulders~

Typically we start at 8.45-9pm and end at 12.30am. I think as a whole it's best to learn new encounters at the beginning of the raid, so if lets say we reach a new boss at the end of the raid we'll just go in and wipe to see how the boss is like. Always better to attempt seriously when everyone's fresh~