Possibly the worst raid ever?

I think tonight we possibly had the worst raid we've ever had. One of those evenings where half way through you really wish that your computer would spontaenously disconnect and refuse to reconnect for the rest of the evening. Alas it didn't, and given that our RL was sitting next to me I couldn't exactly fake it.

It all started off well, I was in a good mood (having just found out I had a second interview for a job and seeing another quite interesting job spec on my email), and having found a healer to replace our regular heal machine. It should have been such a good night.

It actually started of sort of OKish... we had our usual wipes on Yogg, but we actually had a tactic that started to make some progress. Well sort of progress.. we had a few good goes, but we kept getting blown up by exploding adds at the end of phase one. But at least we saw phase 2 regularly this week...sort of.

Then we moved to ToC and tried heroic mode... it was alwasy going to be a bad idea without our heal machine and the first time in ToC with a spotfiller healer. And sure enough it was a disaster. Again, and again. I think some people felt we made some progress, although I'm not convinced. I think it was actually luck as to when and whether any of the healers got snobolded.. if we did we just wiped earlier. The ranged dps was either not high enough or not on the ball or too dead cos they couldn't move their fat lazy backsides out of the fire patches fast enough to kill the snobolds dead (I mean come on guys it's a f*ing huge big red fire patch and with a macro even I managed to target a snobold and I suck!)

So after that we decided to take it easy in normal mode.. which was a wipefest. For some reason the RL decided to let our highest dps bring his newly dinged 80 warrior... which turned up in a range of ungemmed and unenchanted il200 gear of a mix of dps and tanking variety and blues. I mean...wtf?! Sure enough he did less dps than the tanks. I may as well have tried to dps in tree form, I'd have done more damage (and yes I know you can't dps in tree form....)

The two healer approach clearly didn't work. Our spotfiller did his best, and given the circumstances I think did well. He was way off the mark of our regular heal machine, but to be fair everyone else always is (heal machine come back... I love you!). The other healer's an idiot. I've been designated the 3rd healer / dps and I've worked hard to get my dps gear and spec up to scratch. I've got pretty good dps gear now, but suffer due to a lack of set bonuses (I think that's really good for boomkins). Yes I know my dps isn't as good as anyone else, but neither's my gear. And you other healer dancing around in front of my in boomkin form saying you'll do better than me really pisses me off. Period.

Other healer pisses me off for a number for reasons:
(a) when he tries he's actually a bloody good healer, better than me. For some reason all of his heals seem to land a split second before mine. It isn't that which annoys me... its the fact that he's good when he tries so when he doesn't it's very obvious
(b) he has very very wierd ideas on gear.. he passes on gear which is clearly an upgrade for him (just as it doesn't have his precious spirit on it), and that gear would be an upgrade for him and improve our raid overall
(c) he can't be bothered to read tactics. He has rejoined our group after a long break and has been on 3-5 raids with us now. He claims to be a fast learner, and he used to be. The fights now are more complicated and he hasn't read or watched the tactics. He dies stupidly too often. At least when I die it's because an add ate me or a bloody Onyxia wiggled around a bit and got me with her head or tail. Yes I blame the tanks, it's obviously never my fault :)
(d) He made a comment about loot... something that I rolled on and lost to the RL (I don't mind, he is my BF afterall... however come 3.3 it is best in slot for druids...). After seeing I rolled, and rolled lower than the RL he said he'd have rolled if I was in the lead. What an A class tosser.

We butchered our way through ToC. The other healers said they could 2 heal it and I should go back to dps.. I refused, I'd lost faith in them. DPS dying is one thing, I can understand that, but tanks splatting within 30 seconds of the pull is just plain bad healing imo. Yes I was a part of that (I was painting my nails... our progress was so slow I could do a coat between pulls...), and it takes longer with less dps, but at least we might not all die.

We moved to Onyxia, where we wiped, horribly. We then tried again (past official end time), and very very nearly wiped again. It was horrible. Worse than the worst pug I've been in. Shameful. I had to keep telling myself that we're usually OK, somethimes even rather good, and not the complete bunch of loosers that we were acting like tonight.

Anyway, some good did come of it. I got some boots which are better for dps than my old ones and also solve my hit issues. I got a rather odd trinket, which I can put on to improve my par score to get into pugs (it sucks big time and yes I did petty roll on it to stop the other druid getting it and yes I did inspect him to see if it was an upgrade and ask him if he wanted it and he said no). But most importantly I got my 4 set T9 bonus. I'm now officially a grown up proper healing tree.