To prepare yourself for WoWs end game material several months after WoW was released you had to run anywhere from 10 to 100's of runs in the same dungeons, over and over and over, to get the gear you needed to spend hours, and hours, clearing trash in 1 raid, day after day after day, week after week, gearing up your guild so you could keep spending more hours in the same raid killing the trash again, and again and again, so you could fight the same boss again and again and again, for months. The icing on the cake was, you hope you had at least 40 people online in your guild. If people didn't log on, you had to wait minutes and minutes and minutes maybe even hours to form the raid to spend the hours and hours clearing that excess of endgame. Wait no, it wasn't end game, it was simply monotony. Rome wasn't built in a day.