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On my paladin: Spamming your "bubble+cancel" macro as you walk off the Aldor Rise is a bad idea. Popping bubble, mounting and _jumping_ off the Aldor Rise is a bad idea (walking off works fine). Mocking about with "bubble+hs" then jumping off and trying to bubble is also a bad idea.

Heroic SP, mark skull on first pack, step forward, avenger's shield. Avenger's shield? "You must have a shield equipped". Two very long seconds followed, in which I was scrambling to grab mobs, equip a shield and a weapon and bang my head against a wall.

On my mage: First Kael kill, everybody's happily jumping on portals to TB to turn in vials. We get there, get our rings, I equip it. We decide to have a go at Rage Winterchill, a 19 man raid, with 5 or 6 healers. Of course we wiped, so we called it for the night and waited for next week to get more people attuned. Next day, half way through the first bog lord in SSC, I notice I'm a bit low on maximum mana. Buffs? Check. Fully repaired? Check. Weapons reequipped after Kael? Ah. Right.

Back when mana stones were crap, I had a hidden bar with conjuring them, making water/food portals and a lot of other similar out-of-combat stuff. In between pulls. Click on mana stone, yawn sleepily. Loading screen.

On day in MH, I notice that it's rather odd that for the past 3 waves, I had to evocate, pot, use mana stones... the works, even though I didn't have any such problems on previous waves, even with spamming Arcane Explosion most of the time. Quite embarrassing for a mage to ask for a stack of mage food.

As a mage, you can cheat on Supremus and get some DPS in phase 2, knowing you can blink out of volcanoes. That is, until a) he turns around and one shots you (I always thought if you were too close when he started chasing you you got thrown miles away, but, hey), or b) you blink on top of a newly spawned volcano.

Don't ever pay attention to healers asking you to take your AFK off when doing the one-shotting robot trash before Illidari Council.

On Illidan in phase 4, if you see an empty space, make sure the warlock you're sat next to isn't the tank.

With PUGs: Was in a PUG with a mage that did 5 pyroblasts on a boss (on average), about 2-3 fireballs, a lot of scorches and probably fireblasts on CD.