Originally Posted by Drewidism

We need to remember that what makes us great as a guild is not just the top-end raiding. What makes us great as a guild is that we have different groups at various levels of raiding progression and speed. This means that whether you're a freshly minted top-level, or a transfer in to the server with mid-range raiding epics, or a heavy raider with higher end epics...there will always be a place for you to fit in at your current progression. Therefore, it is important that every individual group have a plan.

I feel that certain people need to be reminded of these points every now and then, so there it is.

Now that's an interesting point that oddly makes your gesture meaningless. WotLK comes out 11/13/08 and Visions will start operations 02/01/09 from what you indicated in your earlier post. That means you're giving your current members roughly a tad less than 4 months to get to 80 and geared up. Everyone will progress a different speeds and it is inevitiable that some will out pace others as they can invest more time/effort in their characters. In that case it may be more beneficial to rejoin the 'member pool' as you put it and then re-enter the raiding scene when they deem themselves fit. If that means they'll do so in less than a month like the date Trow has set or in over 3 months at the day you have set is entirely up to them.

Our squads and platoons are not set in stone. They can be broken down and reformed as the need dictates. Personally if I find my time is cut short due to real life issues I'd perfer it if I wasn't wasting a position in a squad only to be entered later as an extra because I caught up at a later date. If 9/10 people are ready and roaring to go, then it seems better for the squad, and the guild as a whole, for those 9 people to get a new 10th person and start raiding. On the flip side I'd feel really poorly if I was that 10th person and suddenly got dropped because a legacy member (squadie from TBC) finally caught up and room needed to be made for them.

There WILL be a squad for you regardless of where or when you end up at end game in TG. If that means current squads will be reborn in the ashes of the end or completely new squads get cobbled together from the remains of the current squads has yet to be seen.

In essence Wintrow's post could be seen as saying "Resurgent is disbanding for WotLK! If you want to join the new Resurgent then you must be level 80 by December so we can take the raiding scene by force! All applicants welcome, but preference will be given to proven dedicated raiders"