How do Fury warriors cope

So, I started writing this yesterday and it was going to be entitled "The power of communication" due to:

So those of you who have followed the ups and down's of my gnomish trio will know that last week I was pretty down. Towards the end of the week another officer called an officers meeting for Monday night and despite dreading the drama I anticipated would result I logged on and we spent an hour and half talking.

We sorted out next months raiding schedule, trying to balance progression with farm nights. It was good to hear the fairly varied opinions of the officers, which I am sure are mirrored by our guildies, about the balance between MH & BT and SSC & TK. We chatted about our tank and healer recruitment problems and are upbeat about several of the new healers who have joined us recently. We spoke about individual "pre-expansion" boredom as well as recent unhappiness with uneven treatment of raiders by our RL. All in all it was time well spent, I don't think we came up with any remarkable miraculous ways of fixing everything, but it was good to have an open, and very mature conversation. While there was no nuclear explosions or fallout last night there may yet be unwanted or negative repercussions from our discussion, that was always the risk, but getting the unhappiness out in the open was definitely the right thing to do.

Our rogue CL took the opportunity to step down in preparation for quitting WoW, he's been unhappy the last few weeks and stopped raiding, plus many of his RL friends have stopped playing WoW. It was sad to see him go, but I know it wasn't a spur of the moment decision and therefore must be the right one, no matter how sad we felt. Many of us were new to 60 when TBC arrived and so we've never really known the pre-expansion emotions which are going round atm. We'll no doubt lose some more raiders and guildies in the comming months, others may be online less, but hopefully the core will stay strong.

Mount Hyjal

We had a good trip into MH on Wednesday, our prot pally has had a reprieve and is back raiding. We two-shotted Rage - still messy, but down and I got the "glow in the dark" shoulders We then one-shotted Ane, for our second kill ever. We got some lucky breaks with some of the infernals landing on the infernal tank healers, but the ranged dps was on their toes and they died really fast. We then went to the horde encampment, where our mass dc'es and server instability caught up with us. However I felt a lot more confident after the Ane kill, it feels a lot more repeatable now. The new healers did a good job and our lock CL got over 2k dps across the entire night, which I think is a first for us.

How do Fury warriors cope

So why the change of subject line, well we've decided to make a weekly push in ZA, eventually aiming for the timed event and the last 2 bosses, who we probably should have killed ages ago. And to get a consistent group I've been asked to respec fury/prot to be OT and mainly dps. Since we're off to BT for the first time tonight, I thought I'd take the opportunity to respec last night and have a practice run in BT, as I won't be tanking Naj'entus.

OMG - I never realised just how ingrained into my muscle memory the warrior GCD was, after an hour of play I had the world's most frustrated gnome - "That ability is not ready yet" was echoing round my head. I mean what are you meant to do when you can't hit skills every GCD

So far it's been a real eye opener, and I know that I will be getting our fury warriors to do more demo shout duties in future. 30 rage for bloodthirst seems astronomically expensive and not having devastate to fill GCD's will dps'ing will take some getting used to.

The spec might need some alterations, once I figure out exactly how much tanking vs dps I need to do and tanking trash could be more interesting as I've lost the big threat moves and some stamina, but overall should be fine. My dps stats are 174 hit, almost 29% crit in zerker and ummm 1.6k ap (maybe more can't remember).

Hold thumbs for us in BT, we've spare tanks, healers and dps signed - first time ever for a 25man, so hopefully we will get going on time and things will go well.