I've got 11 VoG, 7 Crota. About 50/50 Normal/Hard. I've run the relics a couple times, and the sword vs Crota twice, once on Normal and once on Hard. House of Wolves dropped at a bad point in time for some of the newer guys. Those of us who had been doing raids have mostly put that on hold to concentrate on Prison of Elders, which is much less conducive to "sherpaing" other players through. 2 34s CAN drag a L30 player through a L32 PoE to get him some gear, but it does take a lot of time. In a couple weeks PoE will lose a little bit of it's luster, once we've got enough Etheric Light to ascend enough gear to make us happy, and then the raiding will probably pick back up. Not that PoE isn't fun, but the raids are definitely MORE fun.