So last night, one of my good friends Kawehi from the guild BarbaricHonor sends me a tell (as I’m queuing up for Wintergrasp) and asks if I would like to join her Sunwell raid group. Do I? Never having had the chance to run Sunwell back in the BC days, I jumped at the chance to at least try. I knew that I wasn’t geared to run it….but that’s never stopped me in the past. (Ony, MC, Gruul and Kara were all PUG raids I was nowhere near geared for 
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So anyway, I’m summoned from Dalaran to Sunwell Plateau on ‘Daily Island’ and everyone is standing around talking and handing out vent info…which I don’t have access to because my poor guild is too broke to afford Ventrillo. We just use the ingame system for now until we have the money :p The tanks get assigned, and I still can’t decide whether I want Lysix to be tank or DPS….so I just resign to the DPS role till 74 when I will sort out my gear situation once and for all. The groups get shuffled so everyone has a tank and a healer in each group and everything is good to go and so we start.
I’d like to point out that at this point I am crapping myself. I’ve never run it and I always get really nervous on raids I’ve never run, especially big raids like Sunwell or MC. It goes pretty well and we’re down stuff fairly efficiantly. A couple of people die here and there, and we wipe on one of the protectors…which should have been a warning sign, but I’m stubborn so I ignore it.
Everything is going fairly well, I recieve two prizes (a Pyrestone and a epic lw pattern, which I later give to Kiser and Kopla respectfully. I never sell stuff I can give to my guildies)….and the raid group is getting along pretty well too, which is always nice because I hate being stuck in a raid PUG where you have half the group who are either being obnoxious or hateful towards each other (It’s a game people, lighten up! We’re here to have fun, not rip each others throats out!). Then we get to the first boss, and my first look at him automatically wants to send me screaming for the hills.
And we try to down him, but we have an epic wipe…and I’m one of the last standing. Whether that’s because I’m good at standing in a spot where the healers can get me or what, I have no clue…but it’s always the case while I have five lvl 80’s lying at my feet. It makes me feel pretty damn special 
So I get healed, I move back to the start position and then the damn dragon decides that fighting us is hard work….so it decides to take a nap…
As you can see by this point, I’m pretty frustrated by the raid and a guildie of mine- Kasiden asks me if I can see about finding some blue pearls for him for a quest. Being the nice person I am, I say of course and talk about other stuff with him…all the time keeping my eye on the raid chat to make sure I fully know what is happening. We try again, and wipe. And again, and wipe. By the 4th time, I am dead for the 3rd time…release and run back…to find the mobs have all respawned at the beginning- we’re totally screwed because half the party is still over by the dragon and the rest of us are back at the beginning. So we call the raid and I thank Kawehi a whole lot for the invite because I really appriciate her doing stuff like this for me.
After I hearth out to Dalaran, I meet up with Kiser who proceeds to help calm my frazzled nerves by calming me down and talking to me about various things. It was very nice because he turned down a Heroic with our guild leader to stay with me and talk. Half of our conversation was spent outside on the grass in Dalaran, staring up at the stars. I do so love this city, and to share it with my guildies is all the more fun
