I'm not defending thraka, frankly he still hasnt told me where all the cloak of flames were, but he has some valid points. Zerker burned out, Alpha is gone (? not sure). A lot of the things he points out are common since fippy. Every officer burned out, elaida did too. I was pretty surprised myself that zerker was heading up a new guild rerolling into classic after he burnt out at the end of classic on ragefire.
I'm also impressed that Elaida has taken that burden and not burned out yet. He has a family and he hates drama (lol) which tends to make him not want to lead ontop of his enormous playtime. But I am proud he has so far and we'll see where things go. Sagnid and Grisvok are good guys, and I could see them being stubborn due to my past encounters in Ragefire Box Wars, but they never did anything on ragefire that was against the guild. Always been team players.
That said I think most of us from ragefire are burnt out, this xp grind is terrible without the double xp. I was burned out on EQ when the march velious announcement came, and frankly I dont find phinny to be exciting but I like the people in there. We'll see how everything goes. All we can say is that we seem to be well ahead of citizen.