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I really think you might be thinking about it too much. You've already accomplished quite a bit so far with your casual/hardcore raider split. In my opinion, just keep doing what you're doing, and you'll be in BT/MH soon enough.
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We were never expecting to raid casually and be the best, but we made it our goal to keep pace with content release: finishing one instance as the next was released. It had the upside of never really being without a goal like many of the top guilds are where they have to sit and wait for content. In the expansion we find ourselves falling farther and farther behind. We won't see all of the burning crusade before WotLK, we may never see an entire instance worth of content, and that sits very poorly with the raiders that are as skilled and as committed as many of the people in top guilds.
This is compounded by the fact that we're on a somewhat dying server to which we free-transferred shortly before the expansion to escape our vastly overpopulated first server to escape hour long BG queues and rampant server instability. Not to be arrogant, but we were a very well liked guild on our server. We almost completely avoided interguild drama and while i can't say we never had any, it was almost always kept away from the people that just wanted to enjoy the game. We were a well known and respected guild and even still there are threads on our guild forums and our realm forums from both the alliance players we played with, and the horde we fought against to transfer back regularly.
A couple of our veterans, amid tons of recruitment from guilds both horde and alliance from our first server have transferred back. The top 1/2 of our raiders get probably 2-3 tells a week, some of them multiple times a day by several guilds. We get recruited by people that only knew of us but need a particular class, and old friends that would want us back not just to fill a gap, but because they want us in their guild. All of us know that by not transferring, we're choosing to miss 1/4 of the content of the burning crusade when we know we'd be seeing it if we went back to skullcrusher, or really to any server in a more focussed guild. I'm actually really pleasantly surprised that only 4 of our core raiders did ever transfer back. Wiping in SSC or even on a bad night gruul where 1/2 your raid knows that for $25 they could be collecting tier 6 isn't an easy thing to do.