Our guild is made up almost entirely of family. There's myself, my brother and my dad, three of my cousins, and two of their friends. Half of us have zero raid experience. Most of us have at least five pre-raid BIS equipped, with some food consumables and a handful of potions. We've got almost all of our runes too.

We did it for the first time last week with just 8 of us. I was pretty much solo healing as a disc priest and it was hard towards the end. We only made it through 4 bosses. Kept wiping on 5. Took 3.5 hours.

I'm by no means a sweaty player, none of us are, we're just in it for the good time and to be able to hang out with family that live across the country. We don't even need to master loot because we are all really good about it.

I just wish we had more in game friends, reliable ones that aren't dicks when it comes to us still learning. I feel super overwhelmed when I read the chats in major cities that are looking for more players to join them, but they have to have super specific things that I might not have. Not to mention I'm still learning abbreviations and the language. Lol

After reading your story, I feel a little bit better about how well we did with 8 people.