So. Since I last wrote the most important happenings to me and raiding:
The beginning of January was pretty slow. However by the end of January we had killed both Lurker and Void Reaver, which was great. Then things started falling apart. We had a lot of trouble handling a new influx of recruits of varying gear levels, and had to deal with quite a few people who would raid for one week, decide it wasnt for them, but still make off with decent loot. kind we also had a lot of drama. The kind that causes people to /gquit. There were 2 weeks where basically we could barely do Gruul and Magtheridon. Some initiates we were trying to gear up stopped raiding entirely, and some initiates we had geared up left to other guilds.
Though regrettably we lost quite a few good raiders in the process, we also lost pretty much every single raider that I felt was holding us back because they couldn't think or react fast enough when something wrong happened during an encounter, or took a month to figure out simple new boss mechanics. As a testament to this fact, we downed Hydross on our first night of attempts on him. Our attempt when we downed him wasnt perfect, I almost wiped the raid due to one of my dots being up, and the final transition we were dangerously close to having Hydross do a double transition, spawning an additional set of 4 adds. But the fact that we were ahead of the enrage timer and only had 3 deaths the entire attempt shows we have what it takes.
As far as 2.4, I can't wait for it. It has a lot of good changes that remove some of the "annoying chore" barriers it has. Hopefully the new gear options and removal of attunements, and in zone boss kill requirements will make it possible for my guild to get through all of the TBC raid content before WotLK drops (hahahahaha. I can dream cant I?)
