If there was a larger horde population on the servers I play on, pugging Mags would be doable. From what I understand, SHP did a co-run with another guild some time back (not sure if it was pre- or post-nerf) and it went very badly. We took 6 tries to get him down, and had to reclear trash once. I gave them the advice I could, since IC has only run it a few times, but they listened and laughed during wipe recovery and had a great attitude.
I play way too much. I don't raid every day. DotH does Kara every other weekend, and Tryna has only recently gotten to the point of having the gear to be able to do it. I really am not geared for the 2nd half of Kara, but I've seen it on her once when they were lacking people and I happened to be on, and now I'm leading this week's raid so I have to be there both days, since our normal raid leaders are on vacation.
IC raids once a week, maybe more, depending. We usually have a Kara run once a week for badges/alt-gearing, and often a 25-man every week. With ZA, we sometimes do it three times a week for maximum progress during helpful resets - like Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday. Aspects on Tuesday, Malacrass on Wednesday, Zul'jin on Thursday. Right now, our Gruul/Mag runs are on one day. We got Gruul down a week ago Tuesday, both in one-shot, so we went to Mag and got him down in 2 (would have been one, but my healers weren't on the ball when I picked up Mag, so I went down quick). We're trying for that again on Monday night.
I'm not burned out with the game, because there's still so much I haven't seen or experienced. I play every day, usually from when I get home from work, say about 5:30, until 11:00 at night, or later. Weekends I am often sitting in the computer chair from 8:00 until midnight, with breaks for food, etc. So yeah, I play a lot, way too much. But it's still FUN - I spent last weekend leveling my alts. I got my 26 paladin to 30, and my 27 priest to 30. Harkness (my hunter) is now 44, and 2 weeks ago she was 35.
I am burnt out with some aspects of the game, mainly the guild leading aspects. I'm not a leader in IC, and don't ever want to be. I've refused them making me a "veteran" so I can have one place I can just be a member, and not have to worry about guild stuff. Of course, the husband is now an officer in IC, so I am still involved, and one of the other officers comes to me for advice and such, but he has done that for a long time.
The best guild on Llane, a horde guild named Pinnacle, recently disbanded. They were server first on everything once TBC hit. They built themselves from another guild originally, going more hardcore than that first guild. I have to admit, it was awesome to have horde be first on our server for once! But they lost people to boredom, real life, waning interest in the game, just before Sunwell came out. And they decided to not bother to try to recruit and rebuild. Their GL wanted to just play, and be a member of a group, and not a leader. Their raid leader left the game, too. So people transferred to other guilds, or have stopped playing. A few of them stayed on the server, but most if they wanted to keep going seriously, moved elsewhere. A few of their members were in IC or had alts in IC or went to Pinnacle but came back to IC when it was too hardcore for them (a lot of them were RL friends with the GL), so it's been disheartening to see so many people we once knew and looked up to, gone.
But hey, if you are burning out, take a break, play some other MMO. WoW will probably be the only one I'm interested in playing, but part of that is it's the only one that is cross-platform, so the husband and I can play together. And if you ever want to have a place to just hang out, you're more than welcome on one of my many servers. :)
Oh yeah, and I play for fun, to hang with great people in 2 great guilds, and to play with the husband and real life friends. Sure, I'd love to see Illidan dead, and experience killing Kael in a 25-man instead of a 5-man. But I don't have the hardcore attitude that's needed. So yeah, I actually LIKE that you can buy awesome badge gear and PUG content that cock-blocked people for a while. But then again, I'm a casual-hardcore. :D
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I play way too much. I don't raid every day. DotH does Kara every other weekend, and Tryna has only recently gotten to the point of having the gear to be able to do it. I really am not geared for the 2nd half of Kara, but I've seen it on her once when they were lacking people and I happened to be on, and now I'm leading this week's raid so I have to be there both days, since our normal raid leaders are on vacation.
IC raids once a week, maybe more, depending. We usually have a Kara run once a week for badges/alt-gearing, and often a 25-man every week. With ZA, we sometimes do it three times a week for maximum progress during helpful resets - like Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday. Aspects on Tuesday, Malacrass on Wednesday, Zul'jin on Thursday. Right now, our Gruul/Mag runs are on one day. We got Gruul down a week ago Tuesday, both in one-shot, so we went to Mag and got him down in 2 (would have been one, but my healers weren't on the ball when I picked up Mag, so I went down quick). We're trying for that again on Monday night.
I'm not burned out with the game, because there's still so much I haven't seen or experienced. I play every day, usually from when I get home from work, say about 5:30, until 11:00 at night, or later. Weekends I am often sitting in the computer chair from 8:00 until midnight, with breaks for food, etc. So yeah, I play a lot, way too much. But it's still FUN - I spent last weekend leveling my alts. I got my 26 paladin to 30, and my 27 priest to 30. Harkness (my hunter) is now 44, and 2 weeks ago she was 35.
I am burnt out with some aspects of the game, mainly the guild leading aspects. I'm not a leader in IC, and don't ever want to be. I've refused them making me a "veteran" so I can have one place I can just be a member, and not have to worry about guild stuff. Of course, the husband is now an officer in IC, so I am still involved, and one of the other officers comes to me for advice and such, but he has done that for a long time.
The best guild on Llane, a horde guild named Pinnacle, recently disbanded. They were server first on everything once TBC hit. They built themselves from another guild originally, going more hardcore than that first guild. I have to admit, it was awesome to have horde be first on our server for once! But they lost people to boredom, real life, waning interest in the game, just before Sunwell came out. And they decided to not bother to try to recruit and rebuild. Their GL wanted to just play, and be a member of a group, and not a leader. Their raid leader left the game, too. So people transferred to other guilds, or have stopped playing. A few of them stayed on the server, but most if they wanted to keep going seriously, moved elsewhere. A few of their members were in IC or had alts in IC or went to Pinnacle but came back to IC when it was too hardcore for them (a lot of them were RL friends with the GL), so it's been disheartening to see so many people we once knew and looked up to, gone.
But hey, if you are burning out, take a break, play some other MMO. WoW will probably be the only one I'm interested in playing, but part of that is it's the only one that is cross-platform, so the husband and I can play together. And if you ever want to have a place to just hang out, you're more than welcome on one of my many servers. :)
Oh yeah, and I play for fun, to hang with great people in 2 great guilds, and to play with the husband and real life friends. Sure, I'd love to see Illidan dead, and experience killing Kael in a 25-man instead of a 5-man. But I don't have the hardcore attitude that's needed. So yeah, I actually LIKE that you can buy awesome badge gear and PUG content that cock-blocked people for a while. But then again, I'm a casual-hardcore. :D