| I dont even play WoW. I'm basing my experience off of EQ1 and EQ2. Shortly before I quit EQ1, which was right around GoD, I pickup-raided myway into elementals. My hours at work and school never let me be on during prime raiding time, so me and a friend who would play late, decided to help out others who never had time to raid. So usually starting at 11:00 or 12:00, we would form late night raids to get people into the elementals. It was hard finding people at first, but after a week or so once the word got out, we had over 100 people wanting to join nightly. Everyone from n00bs to guild members who needed to be backflagged to anyone who just wanted to have fun. And you know what? It worked out pretty damn well.
Anyways, I dont know about WoW, but from my experience, anyone can raid and get uber gear, they just have to be on at the right time, and have enough time to play.
One more thing id mention, is alot of guilds will say how hard so and so is, and how n00bs just cant do it. A big part of that is that raiders have gear which helps them out, whereas the n00bs do not. I would be willing to bet a pickup raid could beat any raid mob given the same gear. And if I got the same people nightly on a pickup raid, to learn the encounter, then I have no doubt it I could beat it. Just because your in a uber guild doesnt mean everyone else sucks. |