Got pulled into a Black Wing Descent 10 man raid today. Things started off great; Magmaw goes down after a brief hickup from the half-asleep ranged DPS and I win a nice tanking trinket, to replace the Lvl 78 rare that I have been lumping about since my first dungeon crawl. Omnitron doesn't go quite so well, however. One of the DPS in the group is a Paladin, who dishes out such massive burst damage at the start of the fight that the other tank is losing agro. The Paladin, who happens to be a good friend of mine in real life, rips into the tank for a short time, before donning his own tanking gear to prove a point.
From this moment, there are no agro problems, but another one arises. The infighting begins to build up in Raid chat and people are no longer giving their full attention to the Raid Leader's directions and to the fight. We wipe again as a consequence. The Paladin goes AFK for a bit and the disgruntled raid leaders decided to remove him from the raid and replace him with a hunter. The old tank takes his position back and we ready up. The Paladin sends me a whisper. "Back" he says. I tell the raid, unaware that we are full (another AFKer was kicked also). "I had permition to AFK" The Paladin whispers again. Uneasily, and knowing there is little I can do, I ready up and we pull. Thanks to a newly drafted in hunter, we are able to bring down the boss mostly mess free. We kill the trash between Omnitron and the next boss without issue, The name of this boss constantly escapes me (Arachamedes or something), but many in the raid fail on the wipe mechanic and we are unable to down him. Raid is called. I leave with a concerned mind.
I move on to Starcraft with Valcry, we play a Defence of the Ancients-a-like custom mode and I generally get my arse handed to me. The Paladin whispers me. Apparently its my fault that he is about to be kicked from the guild. Oh boy...
Hopefully I can clear things up tommorow. Things are slowly melting dooown.
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