Does this mean you do not play any other games due to the lack of end game content?
I won't subscribe to one. If I am just buying a gamefor $50 and that's it not that much end game content is fine by me, the reason why a game like WoW appeals to me is even a relatively short raid like say SSC took me much longer to get through then most SP games take to complete from start to finish.
We have never done that and never will. Anubis's remarks about how his guild has handled Brut in the past is proof that killing him with a raid that is not 100% optimized is most certainly doable. I don't care if the kill is cutting it close to the enrage timer or not.
On the attempt Anubis posted bring a less then optimal raid they still had 8 toons pushing over 2K dps. I understand what you are saying, but his guild had been farming BT for several months before they headed into Sunwell. Sure, if your guild is in that position you may be able to get away with less then optimal grouping, but coming straight out of BT without min/max it is hard to imagine how you could reasonably hope to do Brut.
And I'm not talking about full sunwell gear, which nobody has yet. There's some gear threshold where Fire breaks away from Frost, but I'm not at it yet.
It's pre Kara that fire starts to pull away- once you get Spellfire+SS fire is already a couple hundred dps ahead of frost(when compared to FSW+SS). Obviously skill is going to make a big difference here, there is a mage in my guild that has a decent gear edge over me(stuck on the drood almost always) and I can still beat him every time in dps. Outside of 2pc T5 using an AB-AB-FB spam in a 40/0/21 build 10/48/3 or 2/48/11 is the highest raid dps.
What should I expect going in there as a Warrior DPS?
If I was RL you would be tanking the priest, depending on gear level we would normally have fury warriors tank the priest dual wielding, he hits like a kitten in relative terms. If you are still packing a decent amount of blues I would tell you to board and sword until he went down. Big thing to watch for if that is how you are used- generate agro FAST. The time from the pull until the priest goes down is the entire challenge for HKM- if you do that without anyone down the rest of the fight is child's play. Keep your pummel off of CD, he will occasionally cast a shield around himself and start to cast a big heal, wait until right before the heal goes off and hit your pummel- have faith your dps will get the shield down by then(if you a geared properly for the encounter your rogues should be saving their combo points to use then and your other dps should be saving their CDs for then too).
After the priest goes down, you will normally take the lock out next, by the time you get to him a hefty chunk of his life will be gone and he goes down quickly. After that there are two different ways of doing things, I don't think one is particularly better then the other, just slightly different- one is to have all ranged dps go after the mage while melee takes out the shammy, other groups focus all dps on the shammy then have ranged on the mage while melee goes after HKM. HKM himself pretty much always goes down last- make sure you have a boss mod so you know when to run out of whirlwind- your healers may be getting a bit low on mana depending on the gear level of your raid by this point and you don't want to try and make them heal anymore then possible.
For Gruul- watch your threat and do as much dps as possible, the only other thing you need to watch out for is shatter- get away from people as much as possible. Keep in mind that it is proximity based, if you are ~8 yards away from 3 people you will take a decent amount of damage, if you are standing on top of someone you are both dead. Grull doesn't have an enrage timer, but he keeps growing throughout the encounter and the bigger he gets, the harder he hits. Getting him down before he is capable of two shotting the MT or one shotting the hateful soaker is the challenge to the fight. He isn't difficult at all, but very different from HKM. HKM could probably fairly easily be dropped by a raid in all blues with excellent execution- Gruul is much more of a gear check no matter how good your execution is.
