Stormrage Social Contract for Tal's Raids

[Bolty]

When someone runs forward to intercept a mob that is incoming you are not doing your job. Whats more is when you start to take damage early on the healers will heal you, possibly drawing aggro before I can even lock down the mobs. As a result the priest ends up face down damn quick and I'm left to scramble with Dragoon to lock mobs down.[right][snapback]92298[/snapback][/right]

After the first run that night, we did a second one which you did not attend. This second time, we weren't so lucky. With too much of this behavior going on, one of our priests ended up face down, oh, 3 times that I recall. Possibly 4. Why?

Because every time people get antsy and not let the tank establish aggro, us healers have to heal your butts. This brings every other mob on us. It was pretty sad - encounter after encounter the other priest and I were playing Fade ping-pong and there were a few occasions when I went into turtle mode and spammed Flash Heal on myself to stay alive (this is the absolute worst thing for a Priest to do, and usually means things have completely gone to *expletive deleted*). It's a miracle Tal was able to hold the first raid fairly solvent. Because we didn't wipe, a lot of it got swept under the rug. But bad habits in UBRS translate into wipes in Molten Core. These are training raids!

Playing in a raid means submerging a little of your "action" for the good of the whole. Constantly ignoring orders and doing things that hurt the raid means you're placing your fun above the fun of every other player there. That's not what teamplay is about. Listen to Tal and listen to your main tank and stop getting people killed. If you were rushing ahead of the tanks, breaking CC (once is a mistake, over and over means you should be booted), not waiting when told, etc, you know who you are.

Good post, Tal. :)

-Bolty