Thanks for (most) of the responses. My main concern was that I do want to try raiding as much as I can, as it's something I didn't have much involvement with during these eras. Reading the forums it is hard to tell if TMO/FE are keeping 4 or 5 good guild targets on lock or 15. I'm not very interested in competing against other players any more, just the game.

Looks like I'm going to jump in and hope I can find a good guild as I level. Now I just need to decide between bard or shaman for my main!

I never said I was casual. I just said I'm not interested in d-bags having any part of my fun time.

So to answer your question: if you want to kill stuff like CT, Inny, Trakanon, VS . . . TMO and FE are your main options right now. BDA gets a few targets every now and again though.

Full Circle has done some crazy socking but I think that will end soon now that their high-level core left for FE.

Divinity gets a target every now and again.

Knightt has said he wants Flawless Victory to try and take out some raid targets; I don't know what they are planning to do.

The A-Team is strongly anti-sock.

Things may change massively if Rogean implements the simultaneous repops, but that thread is months old and after Slave's anti-variance explosion all of the threads were deleted.

I will never be level 60 here. It is highly unlikely I will ever see one raid. It is highly unlikely I'll even see level 50. I still enjoy playing though.

As far as end game, no, you won't be gearing out your toon with every best in slot item the game has to offer. But theres still plenty you can see at 60. And velious is coming, eventually. If you played it in live you know it adds a massive amount of content for higher levels.

If you aren't in FE, TMO, or maybe BDA it is unlikely you will see much of anything beyond planar loot/mobs of inconsequential status.

That's...disappointing. I really do want to raid that stuff. Unfortunately it will be a cold day in hell before I take part in any mandatory attendance or socking. Which would happen years before I would give somebody in game my phone number so they can wake me up in the middle of the night for a raid.

I'm not worried about having the best gear possible. Hell, I made an iksar shaman. I just want to see (and kill) the content.

if more people had self respect like this, the server would be a lot better off

Totally my sentiment. Raiding like that was for my younger years. If I can't get a raid on a random saturday afternoon, well screw that. Just makes me sad that I'll never get my epic without being extreme.

Join a guild and start working towards the content. Once Velious opens, you should be able to see the Kunark content much easier.

forums represent a minority of the player base. a very loud minority, but a minority none the less.

in your play i can almost guarantee that you will find more players like yourself, than you will find on the forums.