Learn Your Job!

Edit: I just found a blog post on another blog that shows the bad side of this mentality. Check it out here.

It is more important that you do your specific job, than the boss dying.

It's a strange dynamic. You have to try to put out your best individual effort, but at the same time do whats best for the raid. The goal is for everyone to come together to kill the boss, but you may have to do things that at times is moving away from that outcome. I guarantee that if everyone did their specific job the boss would die in the end.

For the past 3 weeks we have been wiping on Sindragosa hard mode and by the time the last raid ended it was obvious that some people were not doing their specific jobs. We have had over 40 tries to kill her. That should have been more than enough due to the fact that we have the gear to do it.

(important note, if we kill her this week it will be the server 5th kill)

Jobs on sindra include:
1. NOT parry hasting the boss
2. Running all the way out when she does her deathgrip/blistering cold
3. NOT blowing up the raid with the caster debuff
4. NOT letting your debuff stacks get too high (which means stopping dps)
5. Placing your ice tomb in the correct spot
6. NOT killing the ice tombs too early but bringing them low to kill them fast at the end
7. Using LOS to not die when tombs are up
8. Stacking up correctly when the phase changes
9. Attacking your assigned target, I.E. ice tombs or boss
10. Waiting for the tank call to finish off the tomb
11. Making sure to LOS the stacking debuff so healers have an easier job
12. Moving out of the raid to the assigned spot when you are the next ice tomb
13. NOT being in the assigned spot when you aren't the next ice tomb

All too many people think their jobs are:

A. DPS the boss
B. Heal the raid

The people who think A and B are the only thing that matters are the same people who say things like "LOL you scrub look at my 1337 dps. you suck. I rule!" Too bad they never have a dps meter of a boss kill.

The people who truly care about 1 through 13 and their counterparts on every encounter are raiders who get server firsts (and fifths) and kill the boss week after week.

The bottom line is that you need to understand and execute your specific job first then dps or heal second. If you had a group of 25 people who could do this you would be WoW famous for not just being server 5th but being world 5th (or first)