I initially tried outright pugging back when I was trying to get into savage content, towards the end of Deltascape's lifecycle as the most recent content of the time. It was pretty much an exercise in futility, so I didn't get too far... Then Sigmascape came out and I managed to get into a static group that raids during the weekends, which is a lot nicer being able to work with a group I'm familiar with. We've had a few people cycle in and out for the last couple slots for various personal reasons, particularly for our second healer, which has slowed our progress a fair amount. But I think we have a pretty solid group together now, and we're hoping to finish O8S soon before getting too involved in the next patch's fights. If I kept trying to pug things though, I don't know if I would have made much progress at all. At the very least I don't know if I could have coped with trying to make progress in a fight with entirely new people on a repeated basis.