[Q] What Are The Characteristics of a Hardcore Raiding Gui..

Darin Johnson wrote:
> On Jul 18, 12:19 pm, John Gordon <gor....DeleteThis@panix.com> wrote:
>> Members are expected to have the best gear they can get. A lot of it will
>> come from boss drops, but there is still a lot to do on your own.
>
> So if the guild raids 4 nights a week, 4 hours a night,
> when exactly do members get time to do a lot on their
> own? (much less eat and sleep)

the other 3 nights? And the time before/after the 4 hours?
Sometimes more, sometimes less.

> I've never understood why people actually do this.
> What is the benefit to the player in all this, and
> why put up with the hassle? If I was stuck with
> this hardcore schedule being the only thing to do
> in WoW, I'd check out another game. Or are people
> just so used to having an elite character that they
> can't fathom going to a new game and being a newb
> all over again?

sorry, 4 days 4 hours is nowhere near hardcore.
Most people begin it because it can be fun. And if the whole raid is
good at it, it keeps being fun.

> What happens when people have got all the gear and
> done all the raids? Do they go back to a casual
> play schedule, or do they continue with the grind
> forever?

mostly they help the other members of the raid group also get their
gear, they level up some alts, they wait for the next raid instance or
go test it on the PTR, do some lower instances just for fun and money,
etc, etc, etc.
And the way Blizzard handles it, you'll probably never have "all the
gear", you could always use that item there over this here in that
situation in yonder instance to get 0.02356DPS more on a sunny winter
day in May.

Urs

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