Last night, I went through Zul’Gurub on my level 64 rogue with his guild for a non-serious, fun raid. We had a few level 70’s, and a mish-mash of people from 62+. It was more focused on giving people who haven’t had a chance to raid yet a chance to see what it’s like. It was also my first experience with raiding on my rogue, as well as raiding with this guild. I was curious to see how it would go.

Zul’Gurub is a level 60+, 25-man raid instance in Stranglethorn Vale. It’s much like Zul’Farrak, in that it’s Troll based, and an outdoor instance, so mounting is available. It also has ties, lore-wise, to Sunken Temple, but that’s neither here nor there. For strategies, lore and other information, go check out wowwiki.com/ZG

Most of the mobs are level 60-62, as is the norm with a raid instance set for level 60’s. I had no issues with hitting these guys (being level 64 and having enough +Hit raiting), although some of them were able to resist my poisons pretty well. We didn’t have any troubles with our DPS or healing, although the tank was finding it difficult to hold aggro. We didn’t down every single boss, and alot of the raid died to Hakkar (deciding to DPS him down quick instead of getting poisoned and doing it the normal way). In any event, a fun time was had by all.

We had a level 70 warlock with us who was carrying some gear that made me scratch my head. I didn’t want to talk to him about it, since I haven’t been with this guild for very long and don’t want to come across as a know-it-all, but maybe I should.

This warlock has a mixture of quest greens and blues for gear. Their mainhand weapon is a sword, which is fair enough. Shastarian Herself ran with the Greatsword from Murmur for awhile before getting her Mindblade.
This sword, however, was this: Edge of the Cosmos. With an Icy enchant.

About the only time I ever melee since level 10 or so is during Kara, with those annoying mobs after Curator who you can’t cast spells on. Sometimes I’ll whale on a banished mob, just to be funny, but I won’t go out of my way to gear for melee. I don’t know of any warlock who does. If we wanted to be melee casters, we would have rolled shaman.

Now, to be fair, I haven’t spoken with this warlock about it. He may have a very nice caster weapon that he uses for important stuff, and just pulls this Edge out for silly occasions. I myself am planning on roll on the Suneater from Heroic Mechanar if I am ever there with a group who doesnt need it (one of our tanks has ground his way to Exalted by running through there, waiting for it to drop, so if I can get it, I will tease him with it) but I certainly wont be trying to raid with it, or even do my dailies.

What would you do in a situation like this? It doesn’t directly affect me, since I don’t raid with this guild (yet) on my warlock, but I do feel a responsibility to help this warlock learn abit more about his class. Im confused. Any ideas?