Raid set collecting (single raid)

How many weeks did it took you to collect “a” set from a single raid?

It depends on how many characters of a certain armor type I bring to the raid each week if I have 5 characters with the same armor type, the set will be collected quickly.

One. Or more.

Took my priest I wanna say 7 weeks to get full mythic ant set, but some characters I know have done a raid over 20 times and still don’t have the set from it so rng gonna rng.

When I really want something I have gone hard.

I made 4 monks and did basically all the raids going back to when monks were released. Goal was one piece of any mode, LFR for the recent one, heroic/mythic for the older ones.

Most older ones took up to 4 weeks with a couple done in 1 or two weeks (legion I got lucky with). There would be usually be 1 item from one set that just would not drop that pushed these times out.

Current DF ones were quick:
Season 1: Two days of farming Forbidden reach
Season 2: instant - Basically just converting coalescing essence into sets that I had gotten passively.
Season 3: 3 weeks, 4 of the same class goes hard.

SL: 3 months. Darn things aren’t legacy yet so I had to get a buddy to increase my chances. Bless that Sepulcher of the first ones still have catalyst pieces that convert.

BfA: 2 months; sets have a couple of pieces that are only world drops or world boss drops. What an ugly time gate. If you miss a week when the boss is up, gl, you’re waiting another 4 weeks.

Legion: 2 weeks Kinda worse on the boss rotation. But I lucked out. Time gate on class set.

WoD: The last piece just would not drop for 2.5 months in a row from Blackrock Foundry. Slightly made worse that it was from the Blast Furnace. Beautiful monk sets.

MoP: 1.5 months - no major complaints. Fights were very cool too. . Vividly I recall seeing Raden being like ‘This world is beyond redemption die naive fools’ to humbling up once we beat him. Good times, no doubt fun for those revisiting him in ReMoP.

It took me sometime in 2015 when I started farming tusks of Mannoroth until April 10th 2024. So some 9 years, it was rough!

The replies to your question prove it is a bit more nuanced that it seems at first.

As some have said, if you REALLY WANT a set, then you could technically run more chrs through the same raid, since xmog is shared across your account (warband).

But as someone that just plays a main, just letting sets acquire “organically” … takes like 10+ weeks.

And that’s all because of stupid CLOAKS! If it’s just armor pieces, I only have to roll against other plate classes. But EVERYONE can equip the same cloak, so it takes FOREVER to finally win the roll against 20+ other people.

And what ends up happening in some raids (mine, in this case), is that at some point “high level alts” are allowed to run with the raid, and general loot rules are that “NEED” for gear comes before xmog. Even though we have a “mains before alts” rule.

Now… I’ve pushed back on that, because my MAIN should be able to take an xmog item before an alt takes it as a NEED item. But, I’ve been told “no.” Which is STRONGLY disagree with but… I’m not quitting the raid over it so I’m stuck.

tl;dr: It can take a lot longer than you think/ than it should because of a shared-loot item (cloaks).