Dropping Group Snobbery

Let me paint a picture. A few days ago, I did Horseman on my 75 DK, along with a fury warrior, a tree, a 'lock and an SPriest. Our tank was the fury warrior; some of you may gasp at the thought of that until you remember it's just horseman. Our PuG'd healer is fuming and always makes a comment about needing a real tank after each HH kill. After the priest died on the third (successful) engagement due to pulling aggro and not getting heals or hitting fade for 6 seconds, she hearthed and forsook us. After seeing the loot drop, of course. At first I thought she was cheating us by saving her summon and getting another pug group, but later surveys revealed she had used hers already. If greed wasn't the motive for the group drop, what was?

This is an especially pronounced reaction to something we all do; not running with less-than-ideal groups. I hate pugging, but if I have a tank I know and I'm healing, I know the fail can be minimized and we'll get through it. But the seasonal bosses introduce a new kind of easy beyond even the melted-butter-hardness of heroics, and so they're an opportunity for normally insane compositions. 1 tank 4 dps, 1 healer 4 dps, that kind of thing; it's awesome and rugged manly.

Horseman is supposed to be easy, even for 5 fresh 80s, but the healer snubbed us, just as a food critic might snub a burger, when he usually eats steak. It's not the best, it's not what you'd have chosen, and damned if another bite of this "beneath you" food is going in your mouth, even though this is your lunch hour and you don't get another one until you go home. That was a labored analogy, but the point is, if putting up with wacky composition that takes the fight into the realm of marginal difficulty gets you loot, it's idiotic to snub it. Especially when you can't get into a new group easily.

If it works, it works; don't sit on your laurels and hold everyone (often everyone but yourself) up to high standards. Horseman sure doesn't.