i guess no one in our guild threw any real money at it.
i only decided to spend some of the gems i have got by the guild maxing out the gem statue. that’s it.
and why should anyone have to quit in frustration?
all members get the same rewards, no matter how much they contributed. and total rewards of seven portals are not so bad:
55 gems, 23k gold, 2300 souls, 10 event keys, 30 diamonds, 5 arcane and 8 runic stones, a vault key and a chaos orb don’t hurt.
when i take a look at the guild boss raid leaderboard many members played a lot and seemed to have fun.
eg txtaz said “EPIC battles in Raid today!”
for me it’s a nice change of pace.
of course you must not like it nor play it more. you have already contributed more than enough.
playing in guild war takes me 20 minutes each day. playing in BR takes about the same time, maybe a bit more, because i must think a bit deeper, planning more in advance, reading the board more carefully.
but whatever event is running i spend more time for playing PVP and in explorations to farm arcane stones.
(with a fast-kill team (2 or 3 turns at normal) and at speed x4 i can farm 3-5 arcane stones in about an hour. i’m farming nearly all my arcane stones this way.)
so special events like guild war or boss raid are not really over important.