124693-i-just-resubbed

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			Played for a month or two at launch, loved it but all my friends dropped and went back to WoW so I followed suit, saw the free trial, played for about five minutes and remembered the awesomeness that is the telegraph system. It planted it a seed. Work schedule change made me drop from my raiding guild. Was just really bored with WoW anyways, still think its a great game but maybe I'm getting too old and busy for hardcore raiding. I love the sense of humor this game has. I am dominion on entity, my question is how hardcore do you have to be to raid at endgame? Are there other things to do besides raiding at endgame? Are there alot of active guilds?	
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Welcome back!
 
In regards to guilds, I see a lot of them recruiting here on our forums in very active threads and there's a guild recruitment section right here. You can always read through and see if any sound like a fit. Of course there's those that don't post to the forums and advertise in game instead, so I have no doubt that you'll be able to find what you're looking for. :) 	
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Welcome back!
 
Raids are not very hardcore; at least, not as hardcore as they sound. :P  Most guilds are 3+ days a week, but there are plenty at 3— which to my knowledge is commonplace in MMOs. I can't speak to the skill barrier but I've heard raids are basically not super harder than veteran dungeons, they just take longer to master and in some cases, gear gates must be passed.
 
There are enough active guilds to get a spot I think, depending on your role. Tanks and healers usually have a hard time in established MMOs.
 
Things to do at endgame other than raids:
 
1- Veteran Shiphands (soloable instance, no real bosses, light-hearted fun with good gold/renown rewards)
2- Vetaran Adventures (mostly easy-mode, light-hearted fun and useful early raid prep)
3- Veteran Dungeons (high difficulty, mediocre rewards but getting better)
4- Housing
5- Dailies (CB, NW, etc)
6- Grind your AMP/AP bonuses
7- Make friends
8- Make fun of friends in public places
9- Hate on the Exiles
10- PVP is seeing a bit of a resurgence, and this will hopefully/likely continue to improve with the next drop (sizeable content update with a bunch of PVP changes, coming in *app. 3-4 weeks)
 
 
*lol I made it up, but really, it *should* be here within a month	
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I also just recently returned after a few month break. These are the things I see now in comparison to before.
 
you don't really need to be very 'hardcore' anymore. stats are inflated (everything is easier), raiding tier items are very easy to come by, lots of guilds are farming GA, DS plenty of guilds are making progress. 	
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			10 - Eat Chua for breakfast. 	
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			I highly recommend getting into a guild on Dominion side as well as joining EntityLFG channel. Finding a dungeon group can be a nightmare unless u got a premade group during non peak hours.	
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I highly recommend getting into a guild on Dominion side as well as joining EntityLFG channel. Finding a dungeon group can be a nightmare unless u got a premade group during non peak hours.
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			Welcome back :) !	
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The game is much improved and fun, and this is coming from someone who left it for dead before the retail version was released.
 
Don't let the b2p/f2p rumors scare you off.	
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The game is much improved and fun, and this is coming from someone who left it for dead before the retail version was released.
 
Don't let the b2p/f2p rumors scare you off.
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			Welcome back to the game!  Esper pointed out a ton of the new stuff you can do at cap and we're working hard on continuing to come up with ALL THE AWESOME STUFF TO DO	
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Welcome back, I never de-subbed but work took me away for a while.
Should be interesting to see who is left on the friends list this time around.
 
Good luck to ya!	
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