Wow, that is really interesting, thanks for telling me about it! How long did the organization stick around for? Were you raiding with them basically until you quit or had you moved on?
In vanilla I raided with a casual group called Alliance of Guilds (odd choice of name, since we were Horde...) made up of guilds that wanted to stay small/social but still have an opportunity to raid, so a similar setup to yours but not nearly as many people. It was kind of a circuitous introduction to raiding for me, because when I first started playing I was mostly focused on PvP and wasn't really interested in PvE. I'd joined the social guild I was in because they were LGBT-friendly (this was around the time when Blizzard had gotten in trouble for taking disciplinary action against players for advertising LGBT guilds in chat, if you remember that at all) and they were a member of AoG. Some of the friends I made in the guild were super gung ho about the raids and eventually coaxed me into signing up.
And oh man, when I say casual, they were soooo casual. They'd been raiding MC for months and the only bosses they could kill consistently were Luci and Magmadar, and I can't even say they were on farm because it was still like, max focus, constant vent calls, and we still didn't always one-shot them. During the time I raided with them, I think the furthest we got was... Shazzrah or Baron Geddon? Downing Garr was a BIG deal. That was my first experience of the whole, people cheering in vent, taking a group picture in front of the boss thing. That was what hooked me on raiding. Eventually there was an exodus from the guild I was in because of unrelated conflicts with the officers, and I ended up transferring servers with a bunch of people I knew and joining a guild that was a bit more serious about raiding, and connections I made there led to raiding hardcore when BC hit.
OpenRaid was something that came around much later, a community site that let you post pug raids or guild raids that needed fill-ins and have people sign up. You could rate and comment on how people did and view their history, so it was a step above just spamming trade chat and checking the armory, and made up a bit for the loss of server communities. I made some good friends through that site but I think it went under a while ago.
Two close friends of mine are also a healer/tank married couple who met in WoW.
Healer/tank OTP! :D Looks like you've connected with my wife walgesang. We actually initially met through Harry Potter fandom, but then we became WoW friends too and that was when we got really close and eventually started dating.
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In vanilla I raided with a casual group called Alliance of Guilds (odd choice of name, since we were Horde...) made up of guilds that wanted to stay small/social but still have an opportunity to raid, so a similar setup to yours but not nearly as many people. It was kind of a circuitous introduction to raiding for me, because when I first started playing I was mostly focused on PvP and wasn't really interested in PvE. I'd joined the social guild I was in because they were LGBT-friendly (this was around the time when Blizzard had gotten in trouble for taking disciplinary action against players for advertising LGBT guilds in chat, if you remember that at all) and they were a member of AoG. Some of the friends I made in the guild were super gung ho about the raids and eventually coaxed me into signing up.
And oh man, when I say casual, they were soooo casual. They'd been raiding MC for months and the only bosses they could kill consistently were Luci and Magmadar, and I can't even say they were on farm because it was still like, max focus, constant vent calls, and we still didn't always one-shot them. During the time I raided with them, I think the furthest we got was... Shazzrah or Baron Geddon? Downing Garr was a BIG deal. That was my first experience of the whole, people cheering in vent, taking a group picture in front of the boss thing. That was what hooked me on raiding. Eventually there was an exodus from the guild I was in because of unrelated conflicts with the officers, and I ended up transferring servers with a bunch of people I knew and joining a guild that was a bit more serious about raiding, and connections I made there led to raiding hardcore when BC hit.
OpenRaid was something that came around much later, a community site that let you post pug raids or guild raids that needed fill-ins and have people sign up. You could rate and comment on how people did and view their history, so it was a step above just spamming trade chat and checking the armory, and made up a bit for the loss of server communities. I made some good friends through that site but I think it went under a while ago.
Two close friends of mine are also a healer/tank married couple who met in WoW.
Healer/tank OTP! :D Looks like you've connected with my wife