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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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The barrier to entry for a new raid guild is huge. Let's face it: your new guild is not going to be hugely better than TMO; the game simply isn't complex enough. So even if your guild succeeds, you can expect to get about 50% of the mobs. Tracking and batphoning is bad enough, when you get up in the middle of the night to kill CT and spend 3 hours dodging DT cycles and then the other guild kills something? That sucks.
Then of course there is the matter of practice. Realistically speaking you can probably expect to put in all that time for a few months with very few successes while you figure out the pull strats and people start to work together better.
And finally even if you get that far, TMO will still have a huge advantage in VP. I'd guess TMO has at least 200 VP keyed toons if not more; FE at their height had like 40-50 I thought.
In fact those three paragraphs are basically the story of FE, and not too surprisingly they burned out, although they did make it interesting for a while.
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Just to clarify we had never logged more than 30 FE in VP and were almost always outnumbered 2 to 1.
For our druushk kill we had 24 ppl, with atleast 3 of them kiting TMO's trains while the rest downed the dragon. TMO had close to if not over 40 in zone or outside waiting to zone in. I could post logs but I'm at work and on a cell phone so ill pass for now. With training allowed in VP I honestly think no guild stands too good kf a chance on their own. Even if you kill TMO's first wave of trainers they have 20 more ready to zone in.
Pretty spot on though, I still think FE has lots lf potential though. Lots of folks quit who will likely come back for velious just like in other guilds. In the meantime we keep trying to recruit and kill shit but like you say when you have no infrastructure and limited numbers you don't stand a realistic chance to threaten TMO's chokehold.