Originally Posted by
yzzie
This is a pretty unreasonable request to make of raiders who raid in a 1 night per week team.
Gold is actually pretty difficult to get depending in class and spec. From personal experience, I am still struggling with the healing gold as disc priest because it's a COMPLETELY different playstyle that what I would use in a raid environment, and it teaches new players very little about how to raid. I am a heroic experienced raider with gold CMs, I do know a bit about raiding and my class. PG gold is annihilating me at the moment.
I urge you not to make gold PGs mandatory for your raiders, people were raiding long before PGs came out and they did fine. Use forums and blogs for raid info. And forcing something like this on players will only make them walk away/lose self confidence if the challenge is too hard.