Why raid pugs are hit and miss.

WARNING! RANT INC!
So a raid pug is advertising 3 wings of naxx down with plague left. WRONG. Sapph and KT only. People were dancing around the ice blocks, saying ‘lol there’s an aura noob.’ Noob? I was running naxx back when you needed 8 priests, one in every group! Well, no, I wasn’t, but I got dragged along on my first account to learn strats. Level 60 naxx, let me tell you, was a lot harder.
There was a dps doing 630 dps, WITH NO TALENT POINTS, he gets kicked after the wipe. I was third on the damage meters, with 1350 on a melee unfriendly fight with unattackable portions. Everyone screams, KICK THE DIP#^%* IN GREENS! I had three greens, tyvm, almost all gemmed ones with blue gems in them. One of them was chuchus tiny box, a best in slot pre-naxx. I get kicked, and get an apology from the raid leader, saying that he was facing a gkick if he kept me. I said, ‘np, just a raid, not worth it.’
So now I’m saved to a cleared naxx, with a 30g repair bill, and no loot to show for it. This is why I never, ever, pug raids.
So I’m working on gearing up, and my ignore list now includes everyone on that raid except the leader.
-BOW BEFORE YOUR RIGHTFUL KING!

Funny gank, the state of raiding

So I was farming crystallized life in wg while the horde controlled it, when I got a debuff. I thought, hmmm… These flowers don’t cheapshot!
Being in total PvE mode, it took me a good 10 seconds to realize I had an UD rogue on me.
Being mid-rotation, having just done my second blood strike and a RS, with 2 death runes, 80 RP, and in unholy pres, it took me a good 4 seconds to kill him with 3x SS, one RS, and one death coil.
Moral of the story: Don’t attack a mid-rotation UH DK, low health or not.
On to raiding; if you aren’t in a hardcore raiding guild, and you aren’t a tank, you have two options, at least on my server; VoA for +-10 mins after WG capture, or the occasional half-pug of naxx made by a raiding guild that is short a dps. Full pugs? One a week, at most. OS? Good luck. EoE? No. Almost never, and those just want a keyed person.
-Suffer well, brothers and sisters! (Apologies to skeletonjack.)

The Little Things

WARNING! QQ POST AHEAD. SCROLL DOWN TO ANYWAY TO AVOID QQ.
Sure, I know. Things happen, bad things, stupid things, your fault or not. Part of the game. World of Warcraft. But there are these little things that really piss me off. Exhibit 1: Wintergrasp, this morning.
I’m farming revenants, after having won WG. Even without the flying mounts to position you properly, revenants are pretty easy for a level 77 Death Knight. I pull one flame revenant, and two elementals. Disadvantage one: 3 Lv. 80 mobs, one with almost elite health and damage, on a 77 character. Normally, I’d just go, ‘Oops, bad pull’ and shadowmeld or pop a few cooldowns. However, I had just respecced unholy for the first time in ninteen levels. Disadvantage two: Rusty on spec mechanics. I was also at +-80% HP when I pulled. Keeping count? Now, with three knocks against me, what swoops in but an 80 blood elf ret pally. Disadvantages four and five: Facing my counterclass at three levels below. And sure enough, opens with an arcane torrent, silencing me (Somehow). In the one second that I’m helpless, he gets a crit off on me, bringing me to 30% from 50%. I fire off a scourge strike (glyphed), he cleanses and proceeds to kill me.
If you need that many advantages to kill a 77 at 80, then… Wow. Just wow.

ANYWAY

To stop this from becoming a qq post, there’s a few other things that bug me and are slightly less angsty.
First of all, there’s the pet AI problems.
Any BM hunters out there will know what I mean. Your pet will constantly reposition the mob while they have aggro, dragging it away. Poor ratgrinder (I kid you not with the name.) pulled a withered troll into thrym in zul’drak, leading to an ‘Oh shi-‘ shadowmeld by me. For those unaware, Thrym is Fel reaver 3.0 (or Gankasaur 4.0, depends who you ask.), except hitting for 9k on ghouls. Personally, I’m hoping not to find out plate hits.
And thirdly, flying mobs. Went afk on flyer above Gun’drak, came back to the GY under where I died, my corpse floating above me, irretrieveable. Died mid fall.
-Elune be with you!