Raiding 101

[Treesh]

When there are other people of your own class comfortable with the place, it means that there's more room for you to aquaint yourself and less pressure to healhealheal. 
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I know I'm sounding very negative here, but when you have more people who already know the instance (I'm talking about raiding here, not 5-manning), it's not a way to acquaint myself with the area. They move too fast and I have a tendency to just follow them because I don't want to slow down the group and this means I never actually learn where the turns are, where the mobs are. It also seems (in my admittedly very limited experiences) that the people who take charge either assume you know where everything is and how things are going to go down or assume that you don't know anything and spoonfeed everything to you and I still can't get the instance fixed in my brain unless I 5-man things. Ruvanal, on the other hand, did an excellent balance of telling us the massive surprises coming up without revealing everything and having it feel like we're just robots following commands when we were running through the lower instances. Many thanks for that Ruv. :) I'm the same way with driving to new places. If someone just shows me the way, it just doesn't fit in my brain. It's only when I'm driving (or walking or biking) that I actually learn how to get where. For the longest time after moving to where we are now, I couldn't connect some parts of the town with other parts of the town because I never drove from one to the other. I had driven in one part so I knew how that area fit together, and I had driven in the other parts so I knew how they fit together, but since I didn't drive between the areas, I couldn't connect them together. It's just something weird that GG teases me about (goodnaturedly of course. :) )

Edit: And, while it may sound like I didn't appreciate those who took me into Strat and Dire Maul, I really do appreciate your efforts and I'm glad I did go even if I didn't enjoy them. Thanks especially to NSD who keeps hounding me about going into those higher instances, even though I hate them. ;) I am still enough of an explorer that I want to see new places and experience new things.