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Mage is now 80, with decent gear. Current time at 80 is 21 hours, nearly full epics, and most are above ilvl 200, just have to replace the trinkets which is easy enough to do with about 100 badges. My gear may not be of the greatest quality, but I do know this; I haven’t forgot how to play one! I’m sitting at 2k spellpower, from the 1.3k I had right when I hit 80, 25% crit and 11% hit, so not far to go to be “raiding quality.”

One thing that I have noticed through the time of WoW is guild loyalty has dropped to basically a non-existent state. During Vanilla raiding, if you raided with another guild you were pretty much kicked out of the guild if not just ignored within the guild. No matter the instance, unless you were in a Naxx level guild and running MC with a few alts then who cared. But prior to that point even most AQ40 guilds still farmed MC-AQ weekly. Once BC hit, the 10v25 separation came to fruition and loyalty started to slip a bit after guilds made the move into the 25 mans they didn’t really care about 10 mans. As a guild leader at the time we sold many items to outside raiders from 10 mans, made quite a bit of gold doing so, and even more enemies when they realized their main tank was saved to a raid already and couldn’t make the guild raid!  But even still, as an Illidan guild we ran alts through 10 mans and even some 25s almost daily.  This is unheard of now it would seem.

Wrath brought the raid jumping to a new level though. There is near 0 instance farming, there is near 0 guild loyalty, and that is just disappointing. Atany point in time I can log on and get into a raid, even one as new as RS. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad thing, but the elitism that these “raid leaders” feel running these raids is unheard of. If you invite someone, even if they “suck” as long as they are doing their job they are contributing. I will agree with kicking people that aren’t doing their job, that’s fine, be it a tank that can’t hold aggro or a dpser that’s 1/2 afk. But I don’t see a need for “pst GS” that is just absurd. And seeingthings like”VoA 10 GS 5500″ wtf are you even going to use from VoA 10? I mean honestly, I have a warrior in near full ICC10 man and crafted gear and my GS is barely above that. If someone knows how to play, they know how to play, if someone doesn’t then they don’t. More gear won’t change much, except how hard they hit when they decide to actually pay attention.