I agree the part about the time spent on the game is sort of irrelevant. I stopped playing the game until recently and had a friend of mine help me out with his level 32 characters. He helped me do a few parts of the raid and within two nights playing a total of 2-3 hours I had three pieces of raid gear. That can take someone else 20-30 hours of raids to get. I'm sure I would have gotten them eventually but with his help I will be able to level my hunter to 32 soon and be able to play on par with him