When looking at the new abilities, new talents, new items, new instances, etc
Assume the best.
Understand that just because something new would be overpowered, underpowered, boring, overly trivial, etc in the current game means absolutely nothing as to it's impact in the new game.
Do yourself a favour and assume the best. You'll smile more as a result
In one of Alent's recent posts, he mentions that he raids "primarily for the camaraderie and to help everyone". There were a few comments on the subject, and I got the feeling that there were quite a lot of different reasons that various TankSpot members raid. I can think of a few possibilities off the top of my head:
Currently, my mage's guild is onto Brutallus, with two tries last week trying to hit the enrage timer without any deaths. This upcoming week, we will be tweaking group setups for maximum dps to burn him down.
I burned through 4 dps flasks, 40 destruction pots, 10 flamecaps, several dps oil flasks and stacks of dps food during last week's attempts. All in all, I must've spent around 400-500g on repairs and consumables. Still, I enjoyed it immensely. It's been a while since I'd face...
