Edit: read the topic as "Undergeared clears ToC, ICC to follow". I can't believe how many people don't read past the topic.
We need all that, right?
Wrong!
ToC has now (last Saturday, at least) been cleared by a raid in full blue gear. This is part of a project (check my sig for further details) to clear WOTLK content in blue gear. And we're actually doing it. Many people thought that ToC would be a hard hurdle to get by (even me, actually), but in fact it was easy as pie.
The only boss that wasn't one-shotted was the champions. The first attempt at the Twins only failed due to the paladin tank forgetting to turn RF on.
Next step: ICC 10. I'm fairly confident we can kill (at least) 4/12 next week, which is where most raids tend to end. Wouldn't that be embarrassing for the people requiring 5.6k GS and 11/12 achievement end up killing only up to Saurfang?
"Cool Story, Bro" time:
I've had three different ToC experiences this week:
First I joined a raid being led by a guy who's a recurring joke on my server. I wanted to see first hand how badly his group would fail, so I joined him in ToC 10 normal. Was funny: I was the only dps attacking the Snobolds, healers were standing near Snobolds, people were standing on top of fire for extended periods of time, tanks were getting to 6+ stacks of impale. End result: never got to see Icehowl. On the three wipes we had, the worms appeared twice, none of the times more than one tank alive, so only one could be picked up. I tried to remedy the situation by range tanking the stationary worm, but to no avail. Again, people were taking too much unnecessary damage and healers couldn't keep up.
Second experience was the blue geared raid. Went there on my shaman for his first raid, with whom I usually heal, as elemental. Sure enough I made some mistakes (ahem, pulled aggro on the first Mistress and next thing I heard was *splash*), but the group pulled through. We didn't set any records for speed kills, Jaraxxus lasted so long our healers were OOM for the last 10% (effectively letting a couple of Incinerate flesh go off), but people weren't dying from stupid stuff, so all the bosses went down. (Gormok was killed last week, which I didn't attend, so the kill isn't on my character sheet) After Anub was down, we proceeded to one-shoot Onyxia, which I have also had some horrible experiences with much better geared groups.
Yesterday I was minding my own business when I see a familiar name asking for more people to TOGC10. He's a shaman from the most progressed strict 10 man guild in the world. I ask him if I can join and since some of them knew me and took my druid last week, I get a spot. This was an alt run to gear up some of their alts, but it sure went well. These people don't stand in fire, apply dps to the relevant targets, and can dish out the numbers to overcome the hard parts with so much ease it almost felt like we were running ToC 10 normal. I sure got my Tribute to Insanity on yet another alt (still not on my main!), and am happy this time I didn't feel so carried like when they took my druid.