I think I have a unique perspective as I went from having my own guild with 5 active members and raiding 0 in Classic WoW, to being in the SGA, joining The Forgiven and raiding 5 or 6 nights a week in TBC to now raiding in Wrath and trying to limit my raiding time to 2 at most 3 nights a week. I know this limits what runs I will go on.
My healer is running with pretty much the same raid group on Thurs and Fri's that she has for the past 1 1/2 to 2 years. Would I like to raid with an all Forgiven group, sure. In doing so though, would mean that I would need to hurry and get another toon to 80, something I am not willing to do. I decided when Wrath came out I was raiding waaaay too much and that I wanted to take my time to lvl my toons.
When Dren hit 80, I was fortunate enough to get her back into my old group at a time when our guild wasn't rdy to run 10 or 25-man runs. Now that they are, I don't think it would be fair to just up and drop my current grps run, who have helped me get my full T7.5 gear and run with a new grp. That leaves them with trying to find another geared healer who may not have the same "chemistry" with my current grps members.
I know healers and tanks are hard to come by. What the SGA does is opens up the opportunity to pull from a large group of people who are hardcore raiders down to casual raiders alike. Like Anita said, some may be a bit rough around the edges but they are a good group of people, much better than you would find in general chat for the most part. Are there problems sometimes, of course, that's natural as there will always be personality conflicts. As Anita also said, many in the SGA are like an extension of our guild and can be trusted as one of our own.
The last thing I want to mention before Nyquil takes me into a peaceful slumber, until my head stops up again of course, is regarding the whole "raiding guild, not raiding guild" question. This is how I see it and have seen this mentioned somewhere before. I feel that The Forgiven, and 95% of the SGA guilds as a whole, are guilds that have raiders (and casual players alike), not raiding guilds. We don't limit our membership in order to have the perfect balance of toons for raids nor do we have set times and demands for these toons. The SGA as a whole though, has enough people that when someone wants to raid, there is a good chance that you can find enough to form that raid. Will that mean that you have the same people every week? Prob not. Even the grp I run with doesn't always have all the same people, but there is a good core grp that can usually make up for the shortfalls. The main thing is to make yourself known, sign up for runs and hopefully you get in, if not, there is always next time.
I now end my wall of text and head to bed.
My healer is running with pretty much the same raid group on Thurs and Fri's that she has for the past 1 1/2 to 2 years. Would I like to raid with an all Forgiven group, sure. In doing so though, would mean that I would need to hurry and get another toon to 80, something I am not willing to do. I decided when Wrath came out I was raiding waaaay too much and that I wanted to take my time to lvl my toons.
When Dren hit 80, I was fortunate enough to get her back into my old group at a time when our guild wasn't rdy to run 10 or 25-man runs. Now that they are, I don't think it would be fair to just up and drop my current grps run, who have helped me get my full T7.5 gear and run with a new grp. That leaves them with trying to find another geared healer who may not have the same "chemistry" with my current grps members.
I know healers and tanks are hard to come by. What the SGA does is opens up the opportunity to pull from a large group of people who are hardcore raiders down to casual raiders alike. Like Anita said, some may be a bit rough around the edges but they are a good group of people, much better than you would find in general chat for the most part. Are there problems sometimes, of course, that's natural as there will always be personality conflicts. As Anita also said, many in the SGA are like an extension of our guild and can be trusted as one of our own.
The last thing I want to mention before Nyquil takes me into a peaceful slumber, until my head stops up again of course, is regarding the whole "raiding guild, not raiding guild" question. This is how I see it and have seen this mentioned somewhere before. I feel that The Forgiven, and 95% of the SGA guilds as a whole, are guilds that have raiders (and casual players alike), not raiding guilds. We don't limit our membership in order to have the perfect balance of toons for raids nor do we have set times and demands for these toons. The SGA as a whole though, has enough people that when someone wants to raid, there is a good chance that you can find enough to form that raid. Will that mean that you have the same people every week? Prob not. Even the grp I run with doesn't always have all the same people, but there is a good core grp that can usually make up for the shortfalls. The main thing is to make yourself known, sign up for runs and hopefully you get in, if not, there is always next time.
I now end my wall of text and head to bed.