Peter Stauffenberg
Keeper of the Watch
My experience with high level quests (especially raids and elite runs) is that the group members you have are just as experienced and well equipped as us, probably even more. This means that the success rate will be high.
I've done more than 100 Shroud runs now spread over my toons and my experience is that maybe 5% of the groups have so many newbies or stubborn people who won't listen that we get a wipe or struggle. Last time it happened we had a fighter who didn't want to understand that we have to prep the 4 bosses in part 2. So he continued to hit on one of them until the boss died and we had to start all over. It happened 2 times until we found the solution for it. We simply stopped healing him and he died fighting alone against the boss. Then we solved part 2 and brought him to the shrine. He didn't understand part 3 either and died to the blades and in part 4 he was the first to die. Besides that we succeeded.
So the risk of getting a frustrating Shroud run is probably 5%. Normal runs are very simple now since the blades were nerfed.
I also enjoy the other raids like Hound of Xoriat and Vision of Destruction. At the moment I can't lead them because I simply don't know the way. I just follow. I will try to remember how to move. The quests are straightforward and we can get great loot in there.
I've done more than 100 Shroud runs now spread over my toons and my experience is that maybe 5% of the groups have so many newbies or stubborn people who won't listen that we get a wipe or struggle. Last time it happened we had a fighter who didn't want to understand that we have to prep the 4 bosses in part 2. So he continued to hit on one of them until the boss died and we had to start all over. It happened 2 times until we found the solution for it. We simply stopped healing him and he died fighting alone against the boss. Then we solved part 2 and brought him to the shrine. He didn't understand part 3 either and died to the blades and in part 4 he was the first to die. Besides that we succeeded.
So the risk of getting a frustrating Shroud run is probably 5%. Normal runs are very simple now since the blades were nerfed.
I also enjoy the other raids like Hound of Xoriat and Vision of Destruction. At the moment I can't lead them because I simply don't know the way. I just follow. I will try to remember how to move. The quests are straightforward and we can get great loot in there.