First off, I want to say that I KNOW that the ICC buff is up to 25%. Secondly, I also want to say that I am proud of our 25man group. Why? Because we are 11/12 as of last night! Yes, we are only doing regular modes, but this is an achievement for us. We even got Sindragosa down on the second try (again, I know… 25%).. That fight is not all about DPS, it’s also about where you stand when you get the ice block so as to not ice block the WHOLE RAID… Anyway. I was excited. I didn’t get anything for the run at all (booo) and all the tokens that dropped were the pally, priest, warlock variety. I did have fun though. It’s nice to kill stuff! Woot!
So anyway, tonight is 10man again. We’ve been doing the hard modes in 10man which is nice, but I’m still not needing most of the stuff that drops there. Really, I don’t need much at all for the hunter and druid except for a good trinket.. That would be nice.
I spent the time before the raid getting my addons working correctly with 3.3.5 and playing a little with the RealID system. One cool feature that I don’t remember being mentioned is the ability to have a multi-way conversation with your realid friends. And.. You can include friends that the people you are chatting with don’t have as friends.. You could use this to introduce someone to someone else so they can see if they want to friend them and also to just have as a communication device. I had a few issues with getting WIM to work right with RealID. Even the newer version told me there was no such person when I tried to talk with RealID friends. I’m going to try out Cellular which is supposedly a lighter-weight version of WIM. I like the functionality of WIM, so I hope I can get it to work..
Had some other issues with Prat. One of the features of prat (at least I thought it was) used to be moving the chat edit box to the TOP of the chatbox.. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do that again. Either it was removed, I am just blind, or it was never there to begin with.
Another BIG problem I had with 3.3.5 and addons was with Fubar. It was, for lack of a better term, completely “fubared”.. 
(yeah yeah). So, I picked up Fortress which is a Broker container and got that all setup with both my fubar plugins (via fubar2broker) and just other broker addons. If anyone knows of a Broker container they like better than Fortress, let me know. I don’t MIND fortress, but i’d like something that maybe could auto setup all of the addons in a fubar-like way at the top.. Anyway, I might move back to fubar if/when they get it all working right. I haven’t tried logging into another char, so I don’t know how they are doing with regards to addons.
So, that’s about it so far from 3.3.5. No Ruby Sanctum yet, so I can’t comment/put up tips for that yet. But I plan to when it’s up. Thanks for listening (well reading) to me blabber on.. 
Cellular is pretty nice. I was telling Belghast, who recommended it to me, that the only feature of it that I miss is the ability to minimize chats to the minimap button. Of course, Cellular also lets me use a tabbed interface, so it’s sort of like Pidgin… it’s not bad right now!
As for Prat… the changes to the edit box and chat log were evidently so severe that as far as I can tell, Prat can’t affect the edit box at all right – even the updated one that was on wowinterface the day of the patch.
I used to make my edit box hide until I needed it – now it’s there all the time. Hate it!
I would recommend Chocolate Bar as a broker container. I used to use Fortress myself, however I found the separaqte pieces kind of annoying. Chocolate Bar takes everything and places it in one bar at the top of the screen. And grats on being 11/12
My guild is very small and only ever able to PUG it, so I am only 4/12 in 10 man 
I use ChocolateBar Display, its very similar to Fubar
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/chocolatebar.aspx
With the latest patch though I needed to update one of the libraries manually, the library that needs to be updated can be found here:
http://www.wowace.com/addons/libjostle-3-0/files/31-r50/
Grats on Sindragosa, we are on her as well, and not on heroic modes yet, but my guild is having fun with the content, and that’s what matters most right?
I thought Fubar was discontinued, please tell me someone’s on that again, that would be great news!
I’m using fubar2broker with ChocolateBar to give me the little bars top and bottom, but I’m seeing serious breakage with FriendsFu, GuildFu, and FactionFu, and a general unwillingness to display most broker addons after the patch, so I dunno … I’ll have a look at Fortress, I suppose.
@Stop – Chatter seems to be working OK, FWIW – was updated day of release for those very reasons.
I use auldlangsynefu (spelling may not be correct) instead of friends and guild fu. I have factionfu and haven’t seen a problem. To everyone that suggested ChocolateBar, that sounds like exactly what I am looking for .. If I have time tonight, I’ll try it out! Thanks!
Broker SocialState will do guild and friends together and works with ChocolateBar Display, however it seems to not show the new real id friends yet, only wow only friends
@Avatar – thanks, that library was just the ticket to fix all my problems with Chocolatebar and its little friends.
@Grimmtooth np sir. Also Social State was updated so shows real id, friends and guildies in 1 addon that connects to chocolatebar
I’m glad you’re enjoying RealID, too. And congratulations on Sindragosa! It feels more like a dance than a fight sometimes, always being pulled in, running away, hiding behind iceblocks. Then again, perhaps I just haven’t gone dancing in far too long. The more I think about it, the less I remember zombie dragons and ice being a big part of dancing. Oh, to be young again.
What did you think about the conversations? I liked it, personally, but I wish there was a prompt upon invitation and I was also a little confused the first time with the mix of real names and character names. I had invited a few friends who didn’t have the others as RealID friends, and so they were seeing a mix of characters and names and seeing their real name. A little disconcerting.