You know that sound a bomb makes as it's hurling towards earth at a hundred miles an hour, I am hearing it now.
I have three level 50's all in orange gear. I don't raid because I've been unable to find a guild to suit my needs, not just ingame but as a person as well. I want to learn about my guildmates interact and share ingame and personal experiences with them.
That is one part of being in a guild, the other part is working together to overcome ingame obsticals, through raiding and grouping.
That inturn yields nice loot drops, that yields accomplishments and bragging rights, that is what the human race strives for, to be the best we can be.
Anybody that has ever earned anything of value understands this.
My parents never bought me a car instead they showed me how to work for it and accomplish my goal of achieving it, and latter celebrated that triumph with me as I drove it over to my friend's who never had a car.
They never had the time or desire to invest in a job but they all wanted a car like mine, well if they had BW as parents I guess they could get their car, without working for it and more importantly earning it.
Op, all these people griping about time constraints to raid and whatever stuff they are shovelling about being entitled too vendor items which you and your clan worked so hard to get. I SALUTE YOU AND ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN EARNING THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.
I've spent thirteen years in a very hardcore raiding guild in eq, I literally spent months camping an illusion mask. When I say months I literally mean three months with an average of 6 hours a day camping sitting in one spot going through endless torture, convinced that the world was against me preventing me from aquiring that sought after item. The endless rages and drama so bad I could kill somebody with my looks alone.
Getting that very very rare ingame item that was the envy of everyone else playing....beyond words. I acheieved an item that maybe just maybe, 1 percent of the games players aquired.
Was I the best player in the game NO. YOU BET YOUR *** I WAS CONSIDERED ELITE THOUGH. I was taken from a average player to a hardcore skilled player, and viewed as such by the community. How? Why? well when people see what it takes to earn something so rare and hard to achieve, they either think your crazy (literally) or the luckiest person in the game.
I can only say that one item that silly little gnome mask elevated me to not just how the community perceived me as a player but it forced me to take my game play to a whole new level. You cannot compare something given to something earned.
I really hope this game does not give away such rare items for mere credits. I don't care if you don't have the time or patience to aquire the item if you don't your sol. If you do, well people like me will look at you from across the room and admire that inner glow that only comes from enduring the hardship of working so very hard for your rewards.