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Originally Posted by mmiles8
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Fastboy21 could not be a better testimonial to using the GM's policies from live.
Xev was where I was a Guide. It had a kickass SMT that cared, was professional, and went by the book.
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I also did most of my early raiding on Xev (and came from Povar). I was not high enough to be in the raiding game during classic. I did just a couple of Naggy/Vox raids before Kunark got rolling, but by mid Kunark and all of Velious I was an active raider in Honored Circle (a decided second tier guild) and the The Hand (I felt we were the 3rd best guild on the server behind Harmonium and Altera Vita).
Even as a third place guild we got out mobs. I don't remember much leapfrogging at all. We all just understood that it would reflect on our reputation as a guild and would come back 10 fold if we tried to be asshats. We would hang out and follow others in some times to see if they would wipe. Some times if we had followed another guild in as they killed trash and they stopped for a long time to talk strategy and med, we would give them a short warning (like, engage in 3 min or we will). Anyway, the specifics don't matter so much.
As mmiles8 pointed out, we knew that if we could not work things out on our own, a gm or guide would show up and /ran 100. Nothing sucks worse than that, having the mob doled out randomly instead of on merit. So we settled on behavioral norms for the server, not in a grand guild council meeting, but just through the collective self centered actions of each party... good ol' invisible hand, Adam Smith stuff. That's not to say that we would reach the exact same equilibrium here on P99, but we would find some balance point.