Make sure you're ready.

First off make sure you're ready to go with gear and consumables.

Please, please, make sure you're gear is full of gems and enchants.  You can add alot to your stats by just making sure that you have gems in all your slots.

Enchants are important too, stuff like spellthreads and armor kits can add alot to your life total and other stats.

For about 7g each you can get armor kits off the AH if you want to be super cheap on the enchants.  You can easily add 600 life to your character without much effort at all, just by throwing on a few [item]Heavy Knothide Armor Kit[/item].

Read the strat!  [url]http://fse.luniz.org/viewtopic.php?t=1099[/url] - this is the one Dread put up about the bear boss, our first challenge in ZA.  

[url]http://www.wowwiki.com/Nalorakk[/url]  - here's the Wowwiki link to the strat too.  Having at least some idea of what is going to happen will make laying the strat out alot simpler, and less typing for Dreadwind :) 

Food, pots, reagents should be a no brainer.  You should be bringing enough to use a few pots on each fight if needed (probably at least 20 or so).  Udazhi can make both healing and mana potion injectors if you would rather bring them that way, but bring them!

Reagents are a must too so we have the best buffs, make sure you have whatever twig or candle or whatever you need to give the group buffs, so we dont have to wait forever and rebuff as often.

FOOD.  You've gotta realize how important food is.  Even if it's just Stamina and Spirit food, it's still going to help you and the raid.  Even if you're a caster the Spirit will help your mana regen and the Stamina will help so you're not so squishy when you're standing in the wrong spot :).

There's also many types of food like healing food, spell damage food, even hit rating food.

Elixirs would be nice too.  Probably not needed for Kara but we should all be jacked up for our adventure into ZA.

Make sure you're mods are up to date as well, we're using KTM now so dont be bringin Omen and think you're just going to Iceblock.

There's many ways to aquire all of this stuff.  Farm for meat or fish to get food. Send the meat to Mardigan (he loves to get his hands on someone else's meat) he'll cook it up and send it back.  Need mats for enchanting?  Instead of putting that green you got from Kara on the AH or vendoring, send it to Jyggle and I'll dust it for you and send back the mats, ask Dethe, I'm good for something.

This will take a little work, but hey, 25 man raid guilds spend most of their other downtime just farming so they can raid.  If we want to get goin on ZA, there's no point in not optimizing what we can.