(get ready for a long story)
Just turned lvl 39 recently with my full prot spec paladin, still learning the ins and outs of the tanking class.
Anyway, after a couple WSG runs with my guild last night (in which the guildies actually played well while the other alliance children just ran around (sigh)), we decided to run SM Cathedral so I could get Aegis of the Scarlet Commander, which I've been pining after for the past week. My shield was way overdue for replacement (Resplendant Guardian) and I was running with 39% mitigation with Retribution aura on (ouch).
Our party was me (39), 39 shammy and priest, 36 mage, and 43 hunter, all guildies. Right away we saw that the hunter was the classic hun-tard. He demanded that his pet could tank, pulled mobs left and right while we were still regaining mana, and further ignored us when we told him to stop it. The priest, who happens to be our guild master, was about to lose it on him in voice chat, and after a couple wipes due to his ineptitude, we eventually kicked him. Of course, he mentioned that he was 13 years old in chat earlier, I'm not surprised.
So...there's now 4 of us, me under-armored, our mage is a bit low for the instance, kinda making it a 3 1/2 man team, and we still decide to see if we can clear the Cathedral, nice and slow.
It's funny that even though we were a man down, we were able to clear mobs quicker and safer than when that ****** was with us. Shammy did the pulling as me getting too close tended to pull more than we wanted to, and I'd taunt his mob, lay down consecrate, and judge SoR to get aggro quickly. A couple times another add would come from the back and beat on our priest, and I'd be able to taunt them over as well.
Bosses went down without a hitch, and my Aegis dropped (WOOHOO!). Mitigation jumped from 39 to 49%, slapped me a thorium spike on that puppy, and I'm pretty sweetly geared now.
The good thing is that several of us got good experience working as a group, and are looking forward to running other 30's guildies through SM in the near future, now that the guild has a solid tank ;) (we're a young guild, so I'm pretty much it for main tank)
The end. :)
Edited, Dec 4th 2007 9:32am by hcddog
Edited, Dec 4th 2007 9:35am by hcddog