How does this occur? I mean I don't *want* to sound elitist or anything, but I don't understand. Our little 10m guild isn't exactly the most progressed, as turnover and RL got in the way of our casual schedule which resulted in three or four weeks of lost raiding time. But we still managed 6/7 normal, and are working on Rag, all on 8-9 hours of raiding per week.

We're nothing special...some still occasionally die to fire, or tunnel vision and die, or fail to interrupt, or whatever, and we still managed it.

Perhaps it might be something better posed for the WoW forums, but it's an honest question that I would ask of those that are still struggling on more than 1/7. What is it about the bosses? After 3 months of raiding the fights the mechanics of them have to be understood. Or are they?

Do the healing or dps requirements seem to be too much? Or are the fights too unforgiving when needing to bring a new player up to speed? Simply inconsistent attendance?

Again, I don't want to sound mean or judge anyone, I'm just trying to understand how this can happen if things were fine in the previous tier.