Successful Progression Raiding..Why I Rolled Prot.

It was soooooooooo hard to fall asleep last night. My adrenaline was pumping from the awesome first raiding night my new guild had. It has been every bit of 3 months since the last time I was in a progression based, raiding guild. I am not going to lie, I guild hopped for quite a bit when I first hit Laughing Skull. I stayed in one guild the longest, but it crumbled under us as the raid leader went crazy. This tossed me into my swirl of many many pugs (in which I met quite a few friends and have made connections all over the server because of it. It has netted me invites to tier6 guild pugs etc etc). One thing this does for me? I have ran with quite a few people on this server, and I tend to remember those weird off the wall things about people. Last night, the raid leader told me they were going to make me recruitment officer. Who said guild hopping was a bad thing? Its not like I took loot from any of the guilds I joined. I actually stepped into most of them being the best geared or second best geared tank.

Anyway, back on topic. We started out small, wanting to get everyone acquainted with raiding together and pushed Gruul. Two minutes, twenty four seconds is how long the High King Maulgar fight took. This definately set the course for the evening. We moved quickly to Gruul, lost one person to shatter and downed him by growth nine. (Sorry Masterwolf and Bull, no pics here! I figured neither Gruul nor High King merrited a screen shot.) After divying out the loot we moved on to Magtheridon. Took one pull for the locks to get in gear and drops curses while the rogues found their kick buttons then we breezed right through the trash.

We only had 4 tanks, so I ended up putting on a bit of avoidance gear and tanked the 3rd and 4th adds. We had four of them down by the time Mag spawned (because the two I was tanking were healing one another and people would not stay on one mob to interrupt so it took a bit longer.) The paladin was going to MT mag, and I am still not sure what happened, but the Paladin moved to the wall between the very first cube and the one clockwise of it, but Mag did not follow. He turned and smacked a dps, and my tank instincts kicked in. I instantly picked Mag up after the first dps died and the raid leader (who was the mt) called out a wipe. I yelled out for healing, backed Mag to the wall, and finished up the fight in my half avoidance half threat gear. I was surprised to see people adapted quick to pick up my cube, but we didnt have a single issue and downed Mag. That definately set people into the mood.

Our next target? Hydross. On our first attempt we were a bit sloppy, but we were definately tearing up Hydross. We had someone pull back across the line as we had him at 69% which ended the encounter. Our next attempt we got him to 45% (same thing, idiots pulling across the line.) The very next attempt, we had him... 8%...and low and behold...someone pulls agro becuase they got over zealous... Guess where they were standing? Then they tried to justify that moving across the line was pointless? I am still not sure where they were trying to go with that argument, but none the less...

And [item]scarab of displacement[/item] found its way into my bags instead of a nice void crystal (which is what they wanted to do with it).

We moved around, clearing the trash above Lurker, and made our attempts at him. I had never done this fight before, had watched the video more than once, but never did understand that the main tank cannot side step the spout as easily as he can just dive forward into the water and avoid it. I took 2 spouts to the chest on the first attempt. The second attempt i tried one last time to avoid the spout, taking yet another to the chest before getting frustrated and asking the raid what I was doing wrong. Third time was a charm for me. The fight was a rush. I chose not to tank him in the water (as some suggested) which made it harder for me, but it kept me on my toes. Keeping up shouts, tclaps, shield block, my health, my threat, keeping an eye on my oh shit buttons, moving in after whirlwinds, out before spouts.... man it felt sooooo good to be tanking again! Even as the mallet of the tides did not drop... I was not disappointed one bit!

I am very happy with this new guild. They have the small things that every guild has, but we work together and everyone understands that some of us are still learning, however, those of us still learning are picking up quick and not holding everyone back. We adapt...quickly. I see alot of good things for this guild in the future. Tonight we face Fathom Lord, Leo, and Morogrim...with a possible pot shot at Vashj if time persists... Tommorrow will be spent on Vashj if all goes as planned. Right now, this guild is formed of all the people that got fed up in other guilds at the lack of paying attention and has caught alot of heat for the quitters, but I think if we are on Vashj by day three, it will shut alot of people up. I cannot wait