That group for the Temple of Atal'Hakkar was such wonderful luck. It really was. I skipped most of the instances before the 40s, and to this day have not finished most of the ones after due to group dynamics (only left early once, but the group fizzled after the first boss in almost all of them). But, as I mentioned before, I got into a fantastic, fun group for ST, and apparently didn't suck too badly because I've been picked up for a couple of PUGs with various group members since.
Yesterday, I got to run Ramparts twice and Blood Furnace once. And Blood Furnace? IS SO FUN. Ramparts are fun too, except for that horrific dragon that wiped us about five times the first time through and left me the only one standing, with about 25 hp, the second time through (our wonderful mage hit the killing blow right as the dragon aggroed on him). For once, Saffron's PVP training actually paid off in a PVE situation; I couldn't keep Cinnamon alive with the fire, but Saffron lasted pretty well through it and even picked up aggro for a few seconds after our tank died.
It helped that we had an awesome tank and healer, though. (I think I lucked out; I have met a small handful of fantastic healers and one of them seems to always be on and up for instances, which means that as long as we can find a tank, we can get a group. And two of them know lots of tanks, so... yay!)
I still don't know that I'll ever be a raider, but I could see myself doing five-mans and heroics for fun, when I get bored with PVP.
I do need to find a decent threat meter, though. Until now, I've been able to judge my threat based on the combat text and haven't had a problem with it. Hitting feign death after I crit a couple of times has worked. But now that I am getting somewhat decent gear (for example, due to not running instances and being too cheap/poor for the AH, I am still rolling in level 36 legs — yeah, I know — but have a nice pair of pants when I hit 62) I've noticed I'm critting a lot more, and have even grabbed aggro from my pets when soloing with those damned Helboars.
I tried Omen, though, and I hate that it sits there taking up screen space even when I'm not using it, and that I can't close it or hide it (like Auctioneer). My screen is cluttered enough, I don't need something else there when I will really only be using it maybe once a week/every couple weeks. I like having my screen as free of clutter as possible when PVPing, and since that's still my main focus ... yeah.
I need to find out how to get on VeCo's world PVP alert system or something, though. I missed three — THREE — awesome events this weekend.
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Omen is not too bad. Resize the window so that it displays only 3 or so bars when soloing with your pet, and resize a bit larger when in a party. It can also be hidden. As you are a pet class its assuming that you want it out when pet is active. Somewhere in the options you can turn it off, though I like to have it going.
I liked the settings on omen version one better then the current one but mostly that's just getting used to it I think!
You mentioned that you have Auctioneer, and that you are too poor to gear up properly. These should not be in the same discussion! Auctioneer makes gathering money very easy. Do a full auction scan every day so you get mostly-accurate values for all items. As you adventure, be sure to collect all white and green quality gear that drops and sell anything you don't use yourself on the AH. Simple stuff like stacks of cloth and the various bits that drop of monsters are used for trade skills and can usually be sold for much more than vendor price on the AH. If you have at least one gathering trade skill, make use of it while travelling and sell the materials on AH.
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