***Don't spend 10 minutes explaining a fight BEFORE the first pull. It's so dumb and counterproductive.***

I got the clear and loot my first attempt, patch day, before sunrise with 40 minutes to spare in the raid.

With that being said...

Later in the afternoon I helped friends get theirs. The BIGGEST drop in quality of play leading to abandons I've noticed were from the healers.

Players dodging every mechanic and performing them correctly only to die from unavoidable and raid wide AoEs. Why rez a player and then leave em with little HP only to die again the from doing the next mechanic properly or the next raid wide AoE?

Cohealer and RDMs are out of MP and dead but we have a full LB3, "Heal LB3" I said, but healer elects to instead hard cast rezzes as if to say "We don't need to"... it's almost as if they didn't know a LB3 recovers MP too hmmm. Rez, dead, rez, dead, rez, dead, wipe.

Why? Pug healer runs Ridorana and only had to throw out a medica or two every minute. Tries to run Orbonne with that same mentality and it causes wipes.

Those were my observations patch day at least. Happy raiding. See y'all next week.