It takes me a few minutes to gear my brain into this discussion (not that I have much to contribute), because for me, the goal has always been to run heroics. The idea of gearing up to run something other than the next harder heroic in the sequence is not immediately graspable to me!

Though, as a result of running heroics, reaching toward my goals and having a good time, I *could raid now. I think about it now and then, usually when a friend on another server reports his guild's latest slaughtering of some ridiculous boss or other. For reasons already stated in this thread (waiting for hours for a group followed by a crappy run with a repair bill), and that I don't intend to stop multiboxing so don't want to join anyone else's guild, I doubt it'll happen.

I think my own answer to the $1,000,000 question is ... dude, I've got three other teams to play, and I don't yet have a single Raven Lord mount.