How to get carried like a pro

In most of the groups I've been in for Highmaul, I am competitive for the top spot in DPS. Every once in a while though, you see someone in the group who vastly outgears the content. Then you see stuff like this:

This was at the beginning of the fight, when everyone had just popped their cooldowns. This was the first time I'd ever seen anybody that high. He ended the fight at a cool 38k dps; the funny part about this mage is that he was there specifically with a guildmate, Douding, who couldn't pull his own weight. I never saw another DPS carrying an under-geared friend, but there were a number of other folks with great gear. One of them was even a feral druid!

The sad thing about this group was that we downed one boss, Brackenspore, and then on the very next boss, I was too focused on my cooldowns at the start and wasn't paying attention to ground effects. I died 5 seconds into the fight and then got kicked when they wiped, ha.

It turned out to be a blessing in disguise though. I then found a group that was led by several guild members who were 10/10 Mythic in BRF. What does that mumbo jumbo mean? BRF means Blackrock Foundry, which is the raid zone after Highmaul; it drops better gear. 10/10 means that they had defeated all 10 bosses and Mythic describes the level at which they were successful. Mythic is the difficulty level above Heroic, which equates to gear that is 710 ilvl! With their help, I was finally able to defeat the final boss of Highmaul on Heroic:

There are several things worth noting about this picture. First is that I earned Ahead of the Curve - I'm not sure why, since BRF has been released. There are some groups that require members to have AotC before accepting them (to ensure you've done the fight before), so that will make it easier to get into groups. Second, my dps is only 10k because I died halfway through the fight (not exactly my fault; someone let an effect too high and then I didn't get heals when it went off), which was a little disappointing because the previous two attempts I was one of the last DPS alive. And yea, you read that right - even with some folks who vastly outgeared the content, we wiped twice! They removed multiple people each time, so I was glad to have made that cut.

And the third and final point, the one that I think is the most impressive ... is the top two DPSers? They were both tanks!! Well, the paladin had tanked the first two fights and switched to DPS with Brunz switching to tank, but he had been in the top 2 regardless. The tank putting out 46k dps is crazy! I am generally able to put out ~25-27k depending on how melee friendly the fight is ... so the tank is basically worth two of me. And tanking. This still blows my mind!

There have been some questions about PvP progress, so I'll do an update on that next week.