>WoW nerd warning!<
Yesterday was my first ever real 25-man raid! (I've done tons of VoA but they don't count) AND IT DIDN'T SUCK!
About half the raid was from our chat channel and half was some guild I had never met before. I was expecting total disaster, clique-y uptight srs bsns elitists and I think they were expecting total disaster and a gang of complete noobs who couldn't tell right from left. (okay I can't tell right from left for real, but you get the idea...) I felt a little bit better when I saw their guild was called "just for fun" and in the end I think we were all surprised how smooth everything went. Not a single wipe in 2 wings, and some nice loot too! In fact, since everyone knew the bosses and nobody was a noob/jerk, 25-man was actually a lot easier than 10-man. I'm not used to being the offtank though, ha! Usually being MT is getting to my head... actually it was nice, since I would have been stressed out of my mind if I had had to main tank the whole thing with a bunch of people I didn't know. I did pick up for the tank when Maexxna's enrage got him, and I tanked Loatheb too, so I'm pretty sure I could have done it, I just would have been panicking the whole time... I am TERRIFIED of being the cause of a wipe (or even letting dps/healers die)... and the fear is directly proportional to how many people I'm playing with and whether or not I know them well XD
Hopefully we'll be able to do the last two wings (and Sapph&KT) tonight...since tomorrow evening I'm heading back to the homestead to celebrate
getting old my birthday this weekend!
Also one of our healers (and unofficial team mother-figure) has taken tank as her 2nd spec since she's a drood, and it's so much fun to talk shop and tanking tactics with her! >:3 Go bears!
Wish I had some art to break up the nerdery...but I don't! I *did* update the comic though!