Tom, I totally relate. One issue I'm having is getting to 80 as fast as possible, so I can play with my guildmates. I must be the absolute last in the guild to do so. There was a guy who came back to start raiding again, 7 days later, 7 days, he's 80 (from 70, in epics). DKs have passed me, from scratch. I'm 79, I tried hard to push out to 80 last night, but I figure I have at least two solid sessions to get to 80. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just give up now and do something else, since my wife is pissy I am spending all this time playing (it's probably been 100 hours since Wraith came out).

Anyway there will always be people who are more casual than you, and there will always be people, heck guilds full of people, who play every single day for 6+ hours, who think nothing of spending 24 hours straight playing, etc, to be the first to down the boss.

This is absurd considering the likely fact that we have 1-2 years to go on this content, why do you want to push to 80 in a week or even a month?