25 Mans and you.

Having posted a bit on tankspot but nothing major I've learned alot in what goes into tanking. That being said I find it ... lets say difficult to look at the 10 people who clearly haven't looked up anything about their class, haven't taken any advice I've given (an officer of my guild) or anyone else for that matter and just handing them loot. It pisses me off that people think that you show up for raid and you get loot. That is not how it goes.
We dont use DKP its for the most part a "free roll" system with tanking gear (tier peices) going to tanks first then everyone else. I literally tell them not to give people loot because they aren't fulfiling their role to the guild - Pallies push your heal key once in a while to make it look like you've healed... But when our pally tank out heals them there has to be things done.
But right now the biggest problem we have is people dont like to show up. We are a raiding guild we raid five days (nothing drastic) but it takes us those 5 days to clear all the current content. We should be raiding 3 days tops. One day for Naxx. One day for OS 3D. One day for Maly 5min achivement. But no. We have useless wipes in which we get people dying to shocks on thaddius, running though grobulus posion novas (they are green look at the ground!) Sapharion has a blizzard and is a dragon... dont stand behind him or infront... Why do our healers want to be beside the tank to heal?! KT we get melee Ice Blocking the main tank. On the naxx front though I've seen an improvment by most people who were messing up in the beginning and I'm hoping for full clear this reset this week. maybe the immortal achivement? Doubtful.. But baby steps. Rome wasnt built in a day.

Malygos was another one of those "Teron Gorefiend" fights where you had to depend on people to do their job properly. Our first kill was messy about 10 people survived and we were 10 seconds into his enrage when he died. People died to the static shock, no one knew how to stand on the triangle it was a learning curve to say the least. We've come along way on that fight too - Our people are moving with the group and we are getting closer to getting the 5 min achviemnt.

OS is by far the worst though. We have people who CONSTANTLY get hit by that big orange wall of fire... MOVE! Oh, and void zones? Look around! I have just recently moved from the easy job of tanking sath to picking up adds one of the drakes... Its a big difference on the front of the commotion and stuff but I didnt get hit by flame wall or void zones once. There is not reason for it IMO. We've been doing 2D for the last two weeks and starting 3D next week - I hope it all goes well - Last time we went in with 2D no one died so thats a positive off the top. The new tank since I moved to add control did really well its a DK and he for his first time tanking it got hit by flame wall twice. It was hard to judge when I first did it too. Not many people got hit by flame walls and our dps was in over drive burning down tenebron way faster than usual. Usually we have Vesperon down before tenebron dies - we killed him in 45-1 min. I was throughly impressed.
I may bitch about my guild and some people who need to be more observant but overall I like the guild I'm in they do what needs to be done with a few people who are a little slower on the uptake. But all in all they are a great group of people a little too loot oriented but thats what your going to get anywhere... I hope.

/endrant