115427-are-there-any-two-night-raid-guilds

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So I haven't seen a single two-night raid guild in this game since launch. I know there must be one out there, but it's shocking to me that I haven't seen it after living on Evindra and Stormtalon for four months. I realize this game was touted as hardcore, but come on... 12 hours a week minimum, plus keeping up with the farm for EGs/gold so you can buy all the rune slots etc etc etc OMGGOLDSINK?
 
That's insane.
 
We've all seen the burnout in other MMOs, and we're seeing it at least as consistently here. So what's with all these guilds demanding 12-20 hours weekly?
 
If you're part of a raid guild that's actually progressing (i.e., you're not a two-night guild that's 'building a roster' to one day hopefully raid), please post here. Don't really care which server you're on, or even which faction, I'm just really curious about this.
 
I'd love to try raiding in Wildstar, but god help me if I have to give up that much of my free time again! :P  I honestly don't want to feel like I have to sacrifice house building (my mainstay) just to break off a chunk of this game's wonderful combat challenge.	
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My guild just started GA. We have x-89 down, so haven't really pushed the hard stuff yet.
 
We are three nights a week (Friday-Sunday, three hours per night), but not everyone is on for all three nights. So, for example, I can't do Fridays, but I can sign up for Saturdays and Sundays. Some other people can't make Sundays. Some folks can just go one night if they'd like. Really, there are no demands made of the players except you have to sign up for a raid night if you want to go and you are expected to learn the fights and play well.
 
Thus far, it's working for us and we are having a lot of fun. We'll see how Kurlak goes.	
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My guild just started GA. We have x-89 down, so haven't really pushed the hard stuff yet.
 
We are three nights a week (Friday-Sunday, three hours per night), but not everyone is on for all three nights. So, for example, I can't do Fridays, but I can sign up for Saturdays and Sundays. Some other people can't make Sundays. Some folks can just go one night if they'd like. Really, there are no demands made of the players except you have to sign up for a raid night if you want to go and you are expected to learn the fights and play well.
 
Thus far, it's working for us and we are having a lot of fun. We'll see how Kurlak goes.
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			Both of you sound like you've got some neat systems working. That said, do you worry that marketing such a schedule without details will scare potential recruits away? I personally will stop investigating once I see a three-night schedule. Traditionally raid guilds that go 3+ nights don't look kindly on mixed attendance. :(	
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Nihilism, Lightspire EU  2x - 3x per week.
Depend on attendance.	
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Both of you sound like you've got some neat systems working. That said, do you worry that marketing such a schedule without details will scare potential recruits away? I personally will stop investigating once I see a three-night schedule. Traditionally raid guilds that go 3+ nights don't look kindly on mixed attendance. :(
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			I'm also not an officer, so I can't really answer that. I know that I was hesitant to join at first because I thought I would be missing some nights, so I guess there is that. I ended up joining after doing a bunch of runs through an old attunement circle, so I was able to talk about that. I then ended up liking raids so much, I just don't want to miss anything any more... but I understand the concern. I'd say that people looking for guilds should get in touch with the officers of some of the ones that might be recruiting for 3 a week. 20 man raiding is actually a size that works really well for having a bit more flexibility and most more casual guilds aren't going to guarantee that the same 20 will be able to show up each night (I remember trying to rotate a bench in 10s in WoW was a nightmare, probably why most of the ones I was in weren't ok with mixed attendance).	
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			The guild I'm in, Overnight Sensations, on Warhound(PVP), raids 2 nights a week (Tuesday/Thursday 9pm-1am EST).  We do 4 hours but people drop in/out as the night goes on.  So far we're 2/6 in GA and we only recently started raiding (about a month ago).	
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