I'm a former founding member, so I noticed. Though, talking to Shift, the guild would've died the week later with the bot bans anyway! There were a lot of fishing/herbing/mining bots being used when I played with them, though I don't know what stuff they've been into recently.
I'm not surprised they were smashed by the bot ban in the slightest. Seems like raiding alliance side is drying up pretty hardcore. There's us (Pandamonium), Chaos Cabinet, and Hypnotic that are basically all that's left of any guilds doing mythic.
I didn't play between early WoTLK and just a couple months ago, so I'm wondering - when did the game really become 100% about ilvl? Leveling from 90-100 the gearing strategy was "whatever is higher item level" even if it means wearing strength gear as a mage, because you need item level to do anything. Players now identified (as in the post above) by spec plus item level alone. I'm just curious when it happened?
Ilvl is the new AA. It's how you level through raids. Noodle has the timing of it. I was in the same boat. Quit in WOTLK, didn't play until a few months ago (and quit again). I kept up with the game and I always though people clamoring about ilvl was silly. But I guess you need some sort of metric in this game.
Hell I remember it happening in BC. If you weren't a mage you needed pretty much full purples to get into a heroic pug.
iLVL is the metric by which you judge how well a person should play/perform their given role in a raid. Sure, we all know people that play at 110%, performing at the pinnacle of their class/gear level, but most people maybe pull 75% of what they are capable of. And that is being (very) generous.
Standard psychology 101: People tend to get pretty much pissed when you take away their rewards.
The normal answer would be that Draenor flying is the reward of the Draenor Loremaster achievement. Or, if you want it to be more of a "been there, done that" vein, say Draenor Veteran (requires Draenor Loremaster, 8 of the apexis dailies, and the Garrison Campaign).
