You are now saved to this instance.

And damn if I'm not saved in the most terrible of raids.

Oh right, I forgot to mention where I got saved to.

Well, some PuG finally decided I was geared enough for Karazhan! Yay! (It must be my new bracers that I just got.) Well, the raid went badly - the group fell apart at Moroes - but it did remind me of the old days as a raid leader for my old guild. It was apparent that the Hunter leading our raid, while he had a couple of Kara epics himself (Worgen Claw Necklace, primarily, which of course didn't drop), he had no idea how to lead. I grabbed the raid by the horns and took command, eventually wresting raid leadership from him because the other 8 raid members were demanding he do so.

I won't lie. Our group makeup was abysmal. Three Hunters, two Warriors, a Paladin, a Druid (Resto), a Warlock, a Mage, and a Rogue. I didn't design the raid, but you'll bet your behind I tried to tailor it to fit my needs. Except there was nothing I could do to make that group composition good.

About those other Hunters. Like I said, we fell apart on Moroes. We had the Holy Priest, Shadow Priest, Ret Paladin, and Prot Warrior. I did a quick assessment, and gave kill order: Shadow, Holy, Moroes, Ret, Prot. I assigned myself the Prot Warrior to chain-trap and gave the Retadin to another Hunter. Pull was to go:

1. DPS Shadow Priest (Baroness something or other), trap Holy Priest (Lady somesuch), being chain-trap of Retadin (Lord something stupid) and Prot Warrior (Crispin).
2. Once the SPriest dies, DPS the Holy Priest
3. DPS Moroes
4. DPS Retadin
5. DPS Prot Warrior
6. Collect lewt (which of course is not Hunter loot)

Yeah, that didn't go so well. Why, you ask?

The Hunter assigned to chain-trap the Retadin had no idea how to chain-trap. At all.

When I asked him to chain-trap, he had the nerve to ask me "wat trap? frost?"

I would tell him to go learn from Pike about how to do it, but I doubt even Pike could drill sense through this kid's skull. Problem one? He was 60 points in BM. He had every beast mastery talent in the tree maxed out. Problem two?

HE WAS CONSTANTLY BREAKING TRAP ON THE HOLY PRIEST.

That's right, folks! In addition to getting stunned and blitzed by his chain-trap target, HE WAS BREAKING OUR HOLY PRIEST TRAP. Not even with Multi-Shot! The Hunter trapping her said he was intentionally AUTO-SHOOTING HER.

Since he claimed he was having problems with the Paladin, we switched. He got Crispin (who hits like a girl), I got the Retadin. Never got stunned, because I know how to chain-trap, of course. The raid fell apart after about 5 wipes on Moroes once the third Hunter called the one breaking the traps a fucking idiot and that he was wasting the raid's time. I agreed, and booted him.

Apparently he bragged about this in his guild's chat, because his guild leader had a nice long discussion with me about the incident. Apparently the kid goes to special ed classes at his school, which would explain some of his problems, but his intentional disruption of our group and his insults to the Hunter who called him out aren't explained away so easily.

...why do I get all the bad groups? T_T

Oh. In better news in that front, though... I did out-DPS that group aside from our Mage. And he cheated, anyways, he got to AoE the packs of guests in the dining hall.

/flex

Also, this just in: Watergate happened in the Mechanar!

/angry