So how do I articulate this?

I've been really into tanking since WotLK was released... and I guess I've been able to hold my own (or bring it) when I'm tanking but these past few days have been getting me down.

Runs have become messier, more people die while I'm on 'watch' and I begining to think that I'm not really that good a tank...

I am aware that group mechanics can cause this, and it's not always the tanks fault... having said that, I can't help...

Start the story a couple of months ago. A real life friend of mine started a guild on the server we play on. He wanted it to be a casual raiding guild, with times that could suit everyone. Recruitment started, and with a good few members we were ready to start out first raid; OS10. How many people showed up? About 4. This was the main problem, people were just not showing up. This became a recurring problem, despite checking the times with members. Eventually those who always did show up left, leaving...

Tanking is pretty intense and while its my favorite thing to do in Wow, it can grow somewhat tiresome. I raid 4 nights a week, 2 in 25 man Ulduar and 2 nights in 10 man Ulduar with friends.

It seems to me that Blizzard did a much better job balancing 25-->10 man modes in Ulduar. the heroic version is more difficult, justifying the greater rewards. Up until the T8 bosses, there really aren't very many upgrades for me as a warrior tank anyhow but more than that, we have two solid...

My guild is a good guild. We have people that really know there classes. We farm Naxx while leveling professions and tend to pull entire rooms or hallways becouse, well becouse we can We where just getting started on Ulduar 4/14 25 man 4/14 10 man when someone said hey. We have never done Maly. Whoops. We just kindof skipped him. Well we can't have this lets go kill Maly. So we researched the fight. Watched videos. I even went in with a group i knew would fail so I could see the fight....

Tonight we spend almost 4 hours on trying out, Freya 2 Elder, and the results are lesser than intended. After some speedy trash clear we started the boss pull, we lack of few major melee dps tonight, and we are 2k dps short from our previous attempt on the other night.

I really can't see that we may do Freya 3 Elder any time soon, and we got tonight to finish up the rest of the the instance, which we still have Hard Mode Iron Council, Freya, General Vexaz and Yogg.

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