Horde Raiding,

This isn't another repeat of everyone else trying to get everyone else to believe their opinion on the state of horde raiding on our server, in case the title mislead you.

For a while now I've been raiding on my cow, generally as a main tanking role, sometimes off tank. I am not by any lengths the best tank on horde, or the most geared, but for now I'm doing well for myself. Although I've noticed that the huge difference between raiding on my priest and warrior, is my latency. The latency itself doesn't change, but the ability of playing at my best does. On my priest I would cancel a mind flay 0.7 seconds before it finished itself, because I knew that my latency would make it so that the cast would allow it to do the last tick of damage before starting the new one right away. I would hit vampiric touch and spam sw:p because I knew it would go off before the global cooldown could catch up. But while I'm tanking, I've found that I cannot use my latency in any way at all, to my advantage. It's a massive disadvantage to me, because I'm usually playing at around 600ms. This means, when stance dancing a 2.0 second fear, I have 1.4 seconds reaction time + the global cooldown that's just finishing. It ends up giving me around a .4 second bracket to push the button. This makes it alot harder for me to tank than most others.

I believe that I do fairly well for myself, all things considered, I have around a 700-800 TPS output on boss fights, my gear's up to a good level for what I'm doing, with around 14500 health and 15200 armor unbuffed. After reading Jades post about dedication with raiding and such, I stopped to think about my frost resistance gear. Looking back at it now, I can really see who is dedicated not so much to raiding, but to helping others in the guild and helping to get gear to allow progression in general. I wont name any names, but a few people were a great help, putting in more effort than I did, even. But, the majority did nothing to help. It has also made me realise I didn't do so much to help others, as I should. So, I'm doing my best to rectify that and help out others to get what they need. I believe this is my strong point as a raider, I'm dedicated to get the job done, not in the sense that, as I said, I help others out. But I push myself to do my best and be my best at all times in raids. I try to be there early every time, I take potions for myself and even some for others. I wake up at 7am to go to progression raids where we generally spend a good portion of my sunday wiping repetitively.

I do this, not to help the guild, and I'll be the first to admit it, I'd do it for most guilds. But I do it because I enjoy raiding. The reason I didn't say I'd do it in all guilds, is because if I wasn't enjoying raiding with them, I wouldn't want to be there.

So in conclusion, buff Australian raiding, nerf the mats on resist gear, and for gods sake... Less stance dancing.