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Originally Posted by HeallunRumblebelly
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As a list holder / chardok runner, it's more work than you'd think herding these cats.
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This is true. If you've never done it, you have no idea what's involved. I mean, it's not rocket science, but it's more of a hassle than running a normal dungeon XP group. There's a lot to keep up with in maintaining the XP group rotation, managing the list and making sure that everyone stays on the ball, because a single mistake by anyone in the group will cause a wipe. And wiping an AOE is not a risk in the sense that you have a bad CR, but because it means you just wasted about half an hour it takes to rez up and reorganize everything. And anyone who has done Chardok AOE knows how a wipe lowers group morale, which often leads to multiple wipes in a row, at which point you start losing people. It can quickly turn into a mess if the group isn't well-managed. When I first started doing AOE I was in a poorly-run group that managed five pulls and five wipes in a three hour period. Three hours for negative XP gain. It was awful. In contrast, I once ran an extremely productive group that managed nine consecutive pulls without a wipe. So it's not like you can just show up in Chardok and are guaranteed free XP, even as a proxy. You need a good leader and competent players. The pulls and kills may look easy, but that just means that everyone in the group is doing exactly what they should be. The moment they don't, even for a second, the whole group wipes.