We went from a point where we one shot every boss up to Tortos last week, to this week where events made it so we didn't even get past Horridon. If you are on the raid team you are allowed to be rant, be frustrated and be grumpy as I am this morning. What happened you may ask?
We had too much damn change in the last week.
First of all, we lost Ithuriol to Bridgeburners. We wish him well over there and hope he enjoys his time. We may see him in guest starring roles occasionally as he has some characters still in the guild, but that leaves a hole in our raiding roster that needs to be filled. Preferably by a healer as I don't want to swap who I am gearing again, but I probably will. /sigh.
Secondly one of our tanks had real life commitments this week, and those always trump Wow. So the first night I was tanking on Lag again, in a raid I had previously not really tanked in. The second night I was on my hunter, then my priest when we tried to swap things up a little.
We also had to pull in a couple people to fill holes, (1 the first night (I still count moldie as a standby for the raid team)) and 3 the next night. (Two being Ithuriol and Khallon's alts respectively, and we thank them for helping.)
I want to point out that the issues we are having are nobodies fault. There should be no pointing finger's or irritation. Sometimes you lose people from a raid team, that happens. Sometimes you have a few extra spots for a night or two, that happens as well. This week they all just happened to hit us at once, and hopefully next week will be better. Or I will have a stroke. I am voting for better.
I do appreciate everyone working hard in a bad situation, but the situation as it stands may kill any chance of great progress in Throne of Thunder at this point. Patch 5.4 drops in a few weeks on Sept. 10th, and I am not sure we can get our crap together before then. Of course I could also be over blowing the situation and I may swap back to Dizzty and find out the raid is fine. Right now though, I am just so frustrated, and not just for myself, for everyone else on this damn raid team that have worked so hard to get to the point of progressing again. I owe you guys a better experience then this.
So, this weekend, I will find a fill in. I will look mainly at Pally or Priest heals, but will also look at DPSers. Agility leather, Agility Mail, Strength Plate are all areas that don't have a lot of MAIN spec distribution right now, depending on how things shake up. At this point, I will push whatever toon I am working on through the legendary quest to get them caught up, and once they are legendary, I plan on getting my other two pushed to that point.
That's right, I plan on doing the damn legendary quest three times. Though to be fair both Lazyeye, and Lag are well along it.
As far as inspirational happy thoughts go, on Sept 10, we get siege of Ogrimmar. That is a new raid. New content, and a fresh start for us to start progressing again. At that point, we will go one night ToT, one night Ogrimmar until ToT is done, and I plan on saving the progression since the new raid finder gear will have a higher gear score then the content we are working on. We will push forth, and prevail.
Lag/Dizzty/Lazyeye.
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