Yesterday evening, Skurm strode into the new, revamped Onyxia’s Lair with 24 guildmates, confident in spanking that old dragon and grabbing some fat ilvl 245 loots. 5 hours (or so) later he stepped out, armor battered, Titansteel Destroyer shattered, and stumbled his way over to the inn in Orgrimmar to nurse his wounds and bruised ego.

Despite the failure to down her, I felt good about the fight. Incremental progress was made, and it reminded me of the old days of raiding, where progress didn’t happen overnight but took days, even weeks and perhaps months.

The raid itself bore a large amount of QQ and drama, people complaining about strats, people complaining about roles, people complaining about the fact that we didnt just zone in and faceroll her. This game suffers a tad from a number of noobs or perhaps even veterans who have grown accustomed to instant gratification. They should hearken back to the days of squaring off against the Firelord, C’thun, the Patchwerk of old, where weeks of FR gear farming and raiding for epixx – as opposed to badge farming – in order to gear up was needed, and wipe night after wipe night was par for the course rather than the exception to the rule. Gain a little context, folks. Not downing a new boss the first night your guild zones into the raid is, in reality, not the end of the world. Petulant, babyish hissyfits after wiping on only the third ever pull? Seriously? Seriously?

Grow up.