Lesson: MAKE ARMORY YOUR FRIEND. Inspect people carefully. Don't be afraid to drop out of a pug before you get saved to something.

I love pugging, it lets me roll on anything and everything without feeling guilty and I don't have to spend DKP (my main guild). This week I:

-- cleared Eye of Eternity 10 & 25 (Malygos) on my elemental shaman IN A PUG. I just got lucky to be on when a good raid leader needed 1 more shaman for lust, this is the 2nd hardest encounter in the game and I feel lucky to have done it on my shaman. I even got the chest from Malygos25 (only shaman in raid, lol), best elemental shaman chest piece in game! The MT was a feral druid with 54k HP (LOL) and over 10 people in the raid were doing over 6k DPS in phase1/2, it was crazy.

-- cleared naxx25 in 3 hours on my resto shaman. The raid leader is someone I have pugged with before, he is ruthless about booting people out of the raid who do less DPS than the tank, go AFK without notice, or die to dumb stuff like thaddius/etc. We did military wing first (smart, make sure priests can MC before you lock to raidid)

-- cleared 3 wings in naxx25 on my prot pally over 5 hours. Horrible raid leader, didn't know what he was doing, talked nonstop in vent about dumb things, brought a ton of his friends who were all undergeared and horrible players. We started spider first which is always bad sign. I left after 6 wipes on Thaddius, and added the raid leader to my friends list with a comment "NEVER GROUP WITH AGAIN". I have 30+ of these kind of comments on my friends list.

-- cleared obsidium sanctum/VOA heroic on all of my characters, all 1-shots. Its good to play on a server with a ton of skilled players who mostly like to PVP and just PVE to get gear.