true, the lockouts would help. but spare time to sit at stare at a screen for hours and hours waiting for a spawn does not equate to competence in raiding. they are mutually exclusive.

in the smaller more casual guilds (that can compete on quakes), in my experience, have much tighter Ops than the large guilds that people know they can join and soak DKP without lifting a finger to help.

id rather be 1 of 2 shaman on a raid, where each shaman is a pro at timing slows and doesnt get killed - compared to 1 of 8 shaman on a raid, where 4 shaman are slowing, 3 are slowing too early, and 4 are sitting semi AFK waiting for buffs for tells.

its just that people have lives and dont have the time to sit at a screen for dozens of hours per week waiting for 25 year old raid mobs to spawn, or log in at 3am because they have discord notifications set to wake them up if King Tormax spawns over night

oh shit i didnt see Visc's post

evidently they're trying 1 hour lockouts...starting today

guarantee theres a quake this weekend

have fun staying inside

Just in case you weren't being intentionally obtuse...

Because if you need X of Y class to FTE and successfully kill a raid target, what are you going to be able to more quickly get that bare minimum class composition (and thus FTE faster) with?

100 available casual-hardcore raiders

• 50% of which can log in within 30 seconds of spawn
• 20% of which can log in within 60 seconds of spawn,
• 10% of which can log in within 90 seconds of spawn, etc.

50 available hardcore raiders

• 75% of which can log in within 30 seconds of spawn
• 15% of which can log in within 60 seconds of spawn
• 5% of which can log in within 90 seconds of spawn, etc.

Casual-hardcore guild has 50 players logged in at 30 seconds
Hardcore guild has 45 players logged in at 60 seconds

It's all about who can reach critical mass the quickest... and that is a numbers game, my friend. If you don't have the responsiveness because you don't have the same percentage of try-hards chained to the computer, you can't tell people to change their lives, quit their jobs, ignore their families to be ready to log in at any given point in time -- you compensate with numbers.

Riot didn't need kittens to dominate content over some non existent #3 guild. Fuse was created to "keep the band together" as a result of kittens leadership not wanting to be as active anymore.

In the end it really comes down to leadership - who wants to keep putting in the effort, because it takes a ton of maintenance behind the scenes. Riot/Fuse is lucky to have leadership who keep putting in the effort when other guild's leadership has decided to quit or move on.

I really wish it was about competition but it's not. I've been saying #K1C1 for over 5 years now and this isn't a 2024/2025 problem.

Sounds like raiding is a shit fight. I'd rather beat up Emporer Crush a dozen times than play with diaper wearing adult babies.
B.I.S = Butts In Shit.

Haven't they got like 15 out of the last 20 vulaks

this, i guess.

got the game working on Linux and logged in. /who all feels like a completely different server.

https://i.imgur.com/BCfImFs.png

will be chilling in Kedge farming Driftwood Treasure Chests if anyone needs me.

https://i.imgur.com/wzIMjyc.png

let's go.

Your spell icon choices are disturbing.

i'll ask AI to vibe code me a better UI at somepoint.