Originally Posted by
kuku2
For my part, I loved Openraid during the last expansion. It got me the heroics that I was unable to get with my guilds at the time (some of tier 11) and the achievements I needed for Glory, plus plenty of Heroic Rag kills for when I wasn't invited to my guild's Mount Selling groups.
During this expansion, however, Openraid is pretty crappy. I was able to get a few Heroic Will kills, but that's been about it. Last Openraid group I joined had people trying to move Pheramones to the first boss room in an attempt to remove it and its damage from the fight. This failed and we wiped to increasing Pheramone ticking damage. It became pretty clear that this group wasn't going to kill heroic Garalon and I bowed out.
Then, of course, I joined a pug on my server and got a group ("we've all killed it on heroic") without enough viable soakers for heroic Will and was, once again, saved to a run without killing anything.
At this point, the only Openraid groups worth a damn are those on the event page, since they typically require players that have proven themselves in one way or another. I don't think I'm going to be joining too many chat groups on there, anymore.
I can only imagine that the main reason for such a lower-quality of player on Openraid is that ToT is currently out and the gear from there is immensely better than even heroic gear from HoF and ToES. In other words, ToT raiders have no reason to revisit those old raids aside from achievements, and they have to mix in with the crappy players that don't bother learning anything about the fights before joining the raid.