this is cray talk
1. OP. How does the current fte situation, or "manipulation" or exploitation" as you call it, give one guild any unfair advantage over another? Are we seriously to the point of declaring that a melee class using a Discs is "exploiting"? You people been playing a game of wackamole with supposed manipulations (also known as intended game designs) in this quest to find an excuse as to why you lose dragons more often than the next guy. Its getting ridiculous.
2. Nietche. You said, "where we have 207 people in zone covering about 5 guilds for a Sev pop that not allowing face trackers to take an FTE would be a good start to promoting a sense that Class R guilds actually have a chance." How does having the FTE people start at the zone line make it any more fair? It still boils down to a race for FTE, this time only with bards rather than face trackers. If anything this helps guilds with larger numbers, more bard alts, etc. It probably lessens the chance a class R guild comes up with a fte. Perhaps we should eliminate face tracking fte, eliminate bards fte'ing, we already dont like DA engages, eye engages, no ranger or any tracking classes for that matter. New rule: when mob spawns, only pure melee classes, or int casters may run blindly through EJ to get FTE. Yeah. That'll make it fair and give Class R a true shot, somehow, maybe.
3. Nietche. Comparing operating procedures within VP from times before the raid changes when you could train inside VP and when spawn windows where larger is borderline disingenuous. Apples and oranges.
4. Personally i think the whole idea of limiting repops to one day a week is just dumb in general. Variance should be increased for many of the merbs. Spread this stuff out.
Dolic
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