10 man memories

Last night was a bit ropey on numbers. A dps was away, another dps was out getting drunk and a tank didn't have Internet.
We did manage to get a 10 man together which was great considering we only had 8 signed up.

We started on the first boss on normal and set about clearing trash.
"I know we usually go clockwise to clear on trash but can we go anti-clockwise? There's a reason but I can't remember why?" Jolly asked.
I couldn't work out why you would need to go anti-clockwise.
"Clockwise is the forward way so it's the proper way" I deduced.
We went round, after getting to the back of the room it was starting to get really annoying having the huge green circle on the floor and the shit we kept getting hit by.
"What the fuck is that?" I asked and panned around, spotting the cannon. "The cannon! That's why we go anti-clockwise! There you go Jolly!"
"I knew there was a reason..." he replied as he charged off.
We got through that and the boss with no problems.
When the loot came up, I'd forgotten to put it on master looter, again.
Two bits of loot were passed on and the box dissappeared.
"omg who has the loot?" I asked starting to panic.
"you" came the reply but I wasn't quite getting it.
"the box has gone, does someone have the loot?"
"Ella, it's in your bags..."
So it was!

Distributing this to Jolly to de we took on Iron Reaver.
Since learning the top tip about her left foot we have been really good about moving out of barrage.
"Oh, guys. I totally took that one to the face..." Ant announced.
"It's fine, it's normal" Marvv replied. "Although if this was heroic I'd kill you myself..."
Reaver down, loot master on we went to the next boss, Kormrok.

Marker for hands placed, runes allocated, pool order decided we started.
Things went well and then I announced hands a little too late and while we were in them, Jolly got big...
"Oh! Jolly is going to explode in our hands again..."
We survived him exploding all over us and spread out. That was the only boo-boo of that encounter and we got onto council.

We did the 'stupid' tactics where we stack in a safe corner for ghosts to minimise the damage. A couple of reaps were put quite close but we survived.
We were joking about the loot as we waited with baited breath what turned up.
"What trinket would it be that warlocks need?" I asked.
Marvv linked one.
"Probably this one..."
"It would be so funny if that dropped..."
"Warforged and a socket"
"I'd take a picture and send it to Shane"
"If that dropped, I'd do that myself!"
Alas it didn't, so we couldn't troll our absent dps while he was out drinking.

It's been a while

After a fair few weeks in Hellfire with an inconsistent raid team we didn't get much progress.
Kills were messy or things that we downed before were suddenly a roadblock.
All in all. It had stopped being fun.

With the constant change in players came a lax view on discipline. I was increasingly getting frustrated and due to having pmt I completely lost my shit with everyone.
We took the decision to bench two players who were at the time failing with the set up of 'raid leader' and 'everyone else'.
One took it well after the reasons were given to him. He could see what the problem was and realised (once recount was disabled) that his dps was still viable but it's the following instructions that really counted.
The other... Well.
After discovering he didn't use any add ons and his flippant discription for tactics as 'stupid' it was a case that attitude was the biggest thing here. Yes he pulled the numbers but the other members of the team were insignificant. Even the RL.
Upon being benched for only one night due to his constant elitist attitude he decided to rage quit the team and guild.
To quote Stephen King and The Stand "no great loss"

So we buckled up with 12 players and set to going through the first five bosses on normal. This wasn't for the loot, this was to prove we could have a flawless run when we all put our minds to it.

We even started on time! The determination to pull ourselves out of the gutter and climb back up to where we were in SoO was impressive.