I would not call the raids overly hard or complicated. Maybe some what tuned more for average guilds that can turn out a consistent, balanced raid force?
The month and a half is artificial because of keying. If we had beat each raid instantaneously on server up and on each subsequent lockout (every 4 days and 12 hours), the 31st of December is the earliest the expansion could possibly have been beat. As we can't instantaneously kill raids or complete progression, it ended up being the 1st of Jan.
Expansion would have been beat in the first day or first few days if the raids werent locked behind raid keys.
I would like to give the other guilds listed over on Casual Gamers Lounge a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year thank you card for not showing up to beat event 3 in stage 2 for two + days. This gave us the very nice and welcoming break from having to log in at 3 am for stage 3. Thank you so much, stage 3 would have been more brutal that early in the drunken morning then it was at 2 pm still tired as all get out. Good luck on the race for 2-5 and then 6-10! Will be a fun watch as long as the devs don't nerf anything till it's complete.
I wouldn be surprised if many guilds dont make it pass event 1 or cry that the raids are not winnable... but then here we are to prove that wrong!
Hell Good, right now Atrebe's Vault it the stumbling block for many let alone event 1, kudos on downing Tier 3