Gruul Down

I had my first taste of the next level of progression last night and WOW! Max heard an ad that Syndicate was looking for a hunter and a something else. I was able to /tell in time and got in. It's quick and easy... or at least it was with the guild I went with. Gruul is currently on farm for them so they're accustomed to the fight. I dislike saying it but I don't think Colombian Necktie is close to ready for this. I did pretty well putting out a smidge over 750 dps... and I was 9th on the DPS list. Ouch! We have some things down. There needs to be one bear tank and 3 warrior tanks (I think Buru would be our only contender). There's a butt ton of heals and a mage tank as well. Mage tank needs a bunch of HP. I think he/she tanks a caster so armor is not necessary. These are all requirements for the five ogre boss fight before Gruul. Three of the same token dropped from these guys for warriors, druids and something else that's not hunter so who cares. Wow thanks for being random.
Moving on to Gruul. The fight was a breeze as DPS even keeping my pet alive was facil. There's two different things that the whole raid needs to worry about. I know the name of one 'cave-in'. There will be small pieces of rock that can be seen falling to the ground in an area of effect. If you stand there you take damage. The other is a thunderstomp of sorts that adds a ticking movement debuff and throws each person to a random area. Once each raider lands they have to speard out. In three or four ticks the raiders turn to stone and shortly thereafter explode causing damage to others nearby. Apart from those attacks he's tank and spank. He dropped a hunter/who-cares/who-cares legging token and I lost the roll. Meh. Well it was an easy 5 badges.
Afterwards we f'd around in Black Temple which got old. They voted that over actually accomplishing Magtheridon. A sum total of 2 purple gems dropped and we wiped a few times. Whoopee!
All-in-all great raid learning experience in Gruul's.