Lots of people left, it was like the Exodus. So in terms of what you ask above? Can it cause issues where people feel frustrated with a setback? Oh heck yes. It’s why if we have a bad week in Karazhan, we actually have a place on our guild forums where everyone posts what went wrong and what to fix it. We don’t keep silent about it to save people’s feelings, since saving one person’s feelings on what they did wrong winds up hurting 9 other people.

However, what it (guild blowup) did was let us rework our Karazhan runs and get some people in who deserved to be in there versus those who were going as body-spots. (Ooh, ooh, need a spot to fill up. Let’s grab Newb-70! They don’t need the key anymore!)

So, with few exceptions, our two tanks for Karazhan have been usually one of these rotations (given that we have only four tanks in our guild)
Paladin Warrior
Paladin Druid
(The warrior druid combo isn’t run often (actually, never that I can recall) due to my guild being one of the only guilds in existence that is SHORT on DPS consistently and our warrior doubles as a warlock. And I obviously double as a druid tank or a warlock (or a healer), so if both of us were tanking, suddenly we’d be without a lot of DPS and the ability to do Illhoof.)

And since our change up and a change of tanks, we’ve been doing Attumen to Prince in about 3.5 hours. This includes Illhoof but is minus the dragons.

We do still use shackle on some of the big pulls up to Attumen and on the Ushers and the one four pull on the way to Maiden, but otherwise we’re really shackle free except for the Moroes fight.

So saying, having a paladin tank, IMHO, is almost a must for Karazhan! Have him be top on Moroes and put sacrifice on the second tank and he’ll never stay blinded.

Have him bring healing gear to Maiden and he can do cleanse duty for Holy Fire and keep the tank up during Repentence (if you don’t already have a paladin healer!)

Some of those four ghosty invisible pulls on the way up are cake if you have a good paladin tank just hold all four and have the OT and DPS single shot them off one by one.

And if you have a warrior for your other tank, the paladin can again slap on his healing gear and heal during Curator (good hateful bolt soaker healer!) and Prince (good phase 3 healer for the group and overall health topper upper!).

I’m surprised your paladin didn’t use exorcism to pull though, given that it’s a whole raid instance full of undead?

To sum up my long rambling unnecessary comment.. I’ve fallen in love with hybrid tanks that can tank one fight where a tank is necessary and become a third healer or extra DPS when a second tank isn’t necessary. Oh my God, the versatility makes me drool. *slobber*

Our guild uses pally tanks and you’re right they are awesome for the majority of Kara. I wouldn’t worry about newer guilds not learning the fine art of CC with pally tanks though, a new pally tank wouldn’t have the damage mitigation to stay up in some of the large trash pulls.

Mind Vision your rogue if he’s sneaking in and marking. (Our rogue is our Main Assist). Then, when he gives you your shackling assignment, click on the mob, then /focus in the chat box. Now, your focus is set.

Then click on what you want to attack (in your case) or the MT to heal (in my case).

When the pull starts, I can already be tossing out a PoM or Renew on the tank as my shackling target is running towards the fight. Hit the macro without dropping your current target. ’tis glorious.