So my friend hit 85 tonight and wanted to do a dungeon. Well he is dps and didn't want to wait in the 30+ minute queue so I hopped on my healer for it to be faster. Now my priest is about 3/4 of the way done with heroics so we were more or less guaranteed an easy run through this regular Halls of Origination. I could never have been more wrong.
We get in and the tank is a Blood death knight. No problems there, personally I prefer Death knight tanks in HoO because of all the spell damage done and that DKs seem to have better mitigation towards spell damage. No, the first issue I noticed was that he was a level 85 tank with less than 100k health unbuffed while in blood presence. He only had 97k. So I turned my camera to look at him and I could not believe what I saw. He was wearing the 10-man tier 9 helm AND shoulders. So, I inspected him. I saw that he was also wearing four ICC epics AND being a blood DK he was dual wielding. So this tank was wearing SIX Wrath epics at level 85 and was attempting to tank while dual wielding when blood a DK tanks with two-handers. So, I told my friend:
"I'm gonna see how fail this pull is and if it's gonna be as bad as I think it is... we're gonna end up leaving."
Sure enough we had two CCs. He laid down death and decay and immediately broke them both. He died before I could even activate chakra. I was spamming flash heal to no avail. He then said that he panicked and wont break CC this time. So we came back, got our health back up, CCed, same thing. He was dying way too fast. Its sad when a level 85 tank BUFFED has less health then the healer. I attempted to vote kick him for having terrible gear when I realized that the other two dps were his guildies. They then were blaming me saying I was a fail healer and I needed to learn how to heal correctly despite the fact that I've healed this EXACT instance on heroic without too many issues. Needless to say me and my friend left. It was getting late and we both decided to just try for it tomorrow.
It still just boggles my brain of how incredibly ignorant people can be sometimes.