I raided the first tier in Warlords and it was bad the quality of player has dropped hard. There are like 4 different difficulties now so i kept running into situations where my guild would get stuck on like boss 3 and after two hours call it quits and go down a difficulty. It blew my mind how easy people quit these days it was my first time raiding since the first tier in cataclysm and it put me off how soft most of the players got. I remember being stuck on bosses for a month doing 15 hours of a raiding a week.
Sarthation. 3 drakes up. Nicknamed Sarth3d. We werr farming everything except Sarth3d. It got to the point to where people got lazy and just wanted loot.
On Monday, after the raid, I told everyone were not farming anything anymote until we beat Sarth3d. 4 hours a night, 4 nights a week. We beat him on our 5th week.
We were server first. After that, few people still cared about loot. They just wanted the next challenge.
Now... you can go into looking for raid and TRY to wipe the raid, but you cant. They kill all "one person can wipe everyone" mechanics.
Me and a few of my buddies reformed a 10 man group. We cleared normal in 2.5 weeks. We were one boss away from the last boss, when my computer went splat. We split and everyone went their own way. We hadnt even raided heriocs for a month.
I have a lot of fond memories from playing WoW. Im glad its not like that anymore. No way could I stay interested enough to competitively raid again. This expansion is all about the lore for me.
And a small hope that we get to run across Kil'jaeden again