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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Wow, who has the endurance to do 6 hours of one raid? Brutal. After 3 hours I'm a zombie.
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Heh. These are the new raids, the 'fast' ones. I played a long time before I quit (I started playing about 3 months after the game released originally) and some of the Molten Core runs I led ended up being around that time frame.
Heck, the very first time we beat Ragnaros, it was a Saturday "Front to Back" raid of Molten Core. The place was huge, there was tons of trash you couldn't skip, and there were a lot of bosses...so six hours later, we ended up dropping Rag for the first time.
Folks realized that is a bit crazy though (and Blizz did, too) so now we have places like ICC where, after you learn it, you can blow through it in a couple hours or so.
This is also why you have 'casual raiding' guilds. Those guilds that only raid 2-3 days a week for 2-4 hours. They can accomplish quite a bit, given the time to do so.
I tried a guild like that after my experience with a hardcore raiding guild (30-ish hours of raiding a week. You'd better not miss more than 2 raids a month, either...) and if you aren't in that mindset, you will burn out really fast. It's pretty crazy.