Punk.of.Ages

The whole GearScore/achievement bit is, pretty much, bullshit. GearScore is the most overrated mechanic of the game. No matter how much gear you have, it won't affect your intelligence, maturity, or grasp of strategy. I'll run with a person who can listen effectively and not be a dick long before I'll run with a pompous, incompetent dickhead who got hauled through raids for his gear and achievements even if the former has a 3kgs and the latter has a 6kgs.

Luckily, I'm part of a very casual guild. We have a fairly regular group that runs weekly raids every week and we get as far as we can into whichever raid we choose on Thursday nights. Lately we've been running mostly ICC10. Then those of us that are on more often and towards the later hours of the night will usually run raids such as Ony, ToC, and VoA throughout the week. With the casual way we run things, we never really have guild drama and I've never seen anyone that wasn't PUG'd in get angry or create drama in raids, and those people are quickly removed.

Anyone's best bet when starting to raid is to find a guild that's willing to leave some room for error as you learn and that can remember it's a game and it's supposed to be fun, especially when doing end-game content that you've worked so hard to get to.

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