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To add on to the previous writings I've entered in this thread, I ended up finding myself a nice raiding community. I took a step back and asked myself if I would've done with someone I didn't really know what I was hoping someone would do with me and realized I wouldn't have even considered it when I was leading my guild. Once I came to that conclusion and accepted it, I worked my ass off everyday in heroics and joined a friend's over-geared Karazhan group until I had everything it was possible for me to upgrade outside of Zul'Aman and twenty-five man raids.
When I was at that point, I began looking around for guilds and just happened to find that one that had been recommended to me was looking for a Protection Paladin. I applied with an epic essay and got in a 4/5 (now 5/5) Hyjal, 3/9 Black Temple community. Yeah, it's repeating content, but it certainly doesn't feel that way doing it as a completely different class and I'm having an absolute blast.
Looping back to the original post, I'd guess that three months of hard work is enough to get you from a level 1 to level 70 in enough gear to apply for a respectable guild. Obviously that's dependent on your class and spec desirability and luck will always play a part (if I hadn't instance grinded, I wouldn't have met someone who's become a good friend and got me into his circle of friend's Karazhan runs, for example) but I do think three months is a good estimate.
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