I am the one who knocks ... because I need your permission to enter.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Eh? My guild raids twice a week, we're at 5/9m, currently ranked 46th for 2/day guilds. I'm pretty sure some guilds who list themselves as 1-2 raids per week on wowprogress don't strictly follow that rule, but ye there's a "casual hardcore" niche for sure. The person you're quoting is in one of the best guilds for that niche, it's legit.
If you're interested, here's a list of 2/week guilds.
9/9H and we should have M Goroth and possibly Inquisition down tonight. Two 3-hour nights/week.
Would have Goroth by now if KJ heroic didn't take so long to nail down. Last kill only took two pulls, so that's a huge improvement.
2x 2.5 hrs 7/9h
Killed Host tonight and Maiden took us about 1 hour of progression afterwards.
1 night x 3 hours
4/9 H
1 night x 3 hours, 8/9 HC.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
7/9H about 4 hours a week. Stuck on avatar because 3 marks for 10-12 people is dumb
Stats taken from wowprogress, assuming that the general progression order, given by the number of guilds who have killed the respective boss, in descending order, is:
heroic: Goroth > Harjatan > DI > Sisters > Mistress > Host > Maiden > Avatar > KJ
mythic: Goroth > Harjatan > DI > Sisters > Host > Mistress > Maiden > Avatar > KJ
If you subtract the number of guilds who have killed Harjatan from the number of guilds who have killed Goroth you get an approximate number of guilds who are at 1/9 heroic/mythic. Using this I made graphs to show the "bell curve" you were looking for, showing that indeed 8/9 H is a common point guilds are stuck at, however, in Mythic 3/9 and 1/9 appear more often than 5/9.
This is of course not perfect because the numbers of players in heroic kills vary and it doesn't count pugs because it's only tracking guild kills but it's probably more accurate than a mmo-c poll and mostly accurate for Mythic, I guess, since Mythic is mostly done in guild with a roster of about 25 players.
http://imgur.com/a/D841m
I'm 7/9 HC from healing pugs with a controller. Just keeps getting more difficult to find solid groups that don't require a curve or a higher ilvl.
2x3h, 9/9H. We start Mythic this coming week.