Why keep DF off of new content?

[Ashkendor]

Whether he is saying it for fluff or not, he's not wrong. Raiding is very much a social experience.

Still don't get why so many non-raiders don't get that. Most of us could care less about the gear that drops (myself included), we just want to clear hard stuff with our buddies. The gear is merely a tool to do so.

Right? Tonight 7/8 of my static took an ex-member (and a good friend) to get his first A1S clear. We then went into A2S... to basically play GTA with the gobwalkers, have races with them, and pretty much just spend about half an hour goofing off and laughing insanely in Mumble when the first waves of goblins spawned and killed everyone.

It's really really fun to have friends that are on the same level of content as you are. :3

[Arashmin]

Right? Tonight 7/8 of my static took an ex-member (and a good friend) to get his first A1S clear. We then went into A2S... to basically play GTA with the gobwalkers, have races with them, and pretty much just spend about half an hour goofing off and laughing insanely in Mumble when the first waves of goblins spawned and killed everyone.

It's really really fun to have friends that are on the same level of content as you are. :3

And this is what I would like, but with work and life, it's next to impossible without DF. The only way I could reliably raid the way you're suggesting is if I could convince 8 people who are guaranteed to be on the same schedule as me, and when you have to work a soccer field to 11:30 one night, a beach until 8PM another, a music club until 5AM another, and having your days off be ??? and ???, you begin to feel really left out of the experience. I'd love to just go in and get my feet wet.