How many guilds are actually completing haat?

"KeyMan64x;c-1024435" wrote:
I am in UniKøRns, part of the KøR family of guilds. We completed HAAT the first week it was available and most of us have 7* GK. KøR has 25 guilds right now, 15 of which are HAAT. Based on this, I feel like there are a TON of HAAT guilds.

Tons? Maybe, but as a percentage of the player base? Very few. Remember there are still lots of guilds (with level 85 members) who cannot complete heroic Rancor. Anybody who is in a guild that is part of an alliance is in a specific segment of the gamer population (lets call them hardcore, although it might not be the best descriptor). That itself is a minor percentage of the general guilds. 60% of your alliance can do hAAT, so that's 60% of "hardcore" guilds are completing hAAT. So my bet would be somewhere around 10% total.

Also remember that all those GKs you're seeing are probably because you hang out at the top of your arena shard. Drop out of the top 100 sometime and see if you're still fighting GKs.

It reminds me a bit of WoW. 2% of the players in Vanilla were raiding Naxxramas (the end of the endgame content). My own guild was farming MC and progressing in BWL by the time BC hit, and that content was ancient by that time. In BC we did better and completed BT by the time WotLK came around, but I think again, only like 5% experienced the Sun Temple raid (don't know the exact stats).

Meanwhile, the forum was full of people complaining about having these endgame raids on farm for months and getting bored with the game. It's easy to confuse the vocal "hardcore" minority with the general population, who don't even complete their dailies every day, let alone contribute 600 raid tickets to their guild.