Originally Posted by
rogoth
what they do, is they have between 1 and 3 alts per character, and they run 5+ raids a week to clear content on normal (hence why u see many of the top guilds taking soo long to clear an instance on normal among using normal as a way to try out tactics for hc mode), in the case of 25 man, they will take 5 "mains" and 20 alts, wun these guys through all available bosses, and give all loot that drops to these 5 players, next raid, another 5 mains are sent through, getting all loot that drops (unless nobody needs even for OS), until all 25 mains have a full set of whatever they need, rinse and repeat for heroic mode content so u get the entire raid decked out in full hc tier and BiS trinkets etc literally within a week or 2, also, the gold that these guys have in the bank is phenominal, they can buy any and all hc raid epics that appear on the BMAH either as themselves, or from the guild bank, so even easier progression pathway, if th rate at which hc epics appear is like my server, they will have about 4 or 5 ppl with 2-3 pieces of 509 raid loot before it was even possible to kill anything that dropped 509 ilvl gear.