I was pondering, how myself being a Tank affects how I implement raid strategies. Here's how things seem to play out in my raid.

Tanks: Are given very logical jobs that are often a more challenging way of doing things allowing strong tanking to compensate for weaker play by the other roles. Overall though, tank distribution is very accurate in terms of how many tanks are required to do a given task and what tasks are best suited to what class.

DPS: Have no say. Generally...

Amongst the story telling of Yakra's newest blog post, he had some amazing gems of wisdom.

1. Keep your Raid in the Loop

I know when I'm really pissed off that I get really quiet. I don't yell at my raid. I do my best to never even sound disappointed in them if I can help it, but I forget how damaging my silence can be. The importance of identifying the problem and talking about how we're going to solve it so that the team knows it's going to be solved. A known enemy...

I'm fairly certain I speak for the collective here when I say that most guilds have encountered 1 of 2 "problems":

1) A bunch of new melee DPS in the form of Death Knights, but also Feral Druids and Ret Paladins
2) A bunch of new tanks in the form of Death Knights, but also Paladins and Druids

...and this is pretty natural. A new expansion always seems to lead to your healers, ranged dps and tanks looking to take on less responsibility in the form of...

Insights from Dragon to +1 Drake

I'm not going to get into the fact that the jump from Sartharion alone to Sartharion with a drake is a tremendous difference in the 10-man and that any guild that's done it with all 3 drakes should truly be commended and respected... I'm not going to talk about that.

The beauty of going from something easy to something hard is observing what happens to people. Seeing how they respond to their expectations changing.

The...

If there's one thing you learn in leading a raid for an entire expansion, it's people's complete lack of ability to say, "I'm Sorry". It's astounding how reluctant people are to say those simple words while also equally astounding how powerful their usage is. They'll solve virtual any problem.

In general, it's fairly amazing how much of raid leading is about the time you spend outside of the raid instead of the time you spend in. I can't say that I've ever made as much...