Andis couldn't be more wrong about Holocaust helping the box. People like Nirgon, Gongshow, Colgate, etc. have gone on streams and on the blue forums and recruited tons of people to red.
As far as variance goes, it's counter productive to PVP and the only reason Azrael is lobbying for it is because it would mean they actually stood a chance at killing a raid mob in the current system. People are less likely to log on and raid something spawning at 1pm EST if they weren't already aware of it's spawn time.
Variance is a terrible idea. It discourages PVP in every aspect. It was also used on blue and was horrible. Most of you have no idea how shitty variance was because you never played on a server with 72 hour variance windows, so stop talking about it like you have a clue.
Azrael could be successful but they aren't for two reasons:
- Lite is a horrible leader
- Officers of Azrael are egotistical and don't want to teach, gear, or help anyone they deem as "unskilled."
Sorry but your own egos and attitudes prohibit you from succeeding more than anything. I've heard most of your officers sit in locked channels in a TS. Shit like that doesn't help build any type of guild for newer players to grow.
I could sit here all day and cite examples of how toxic Azrael is to the server and how their own behavior and attitudes are their undoing but I'm pretty sure everyone's already aware of Sickpuppy and Andis' epic rogue alts that sit in crushbone and MM pking lowbies with no gear for YT. The fact that Lite led a group into KC to corpse camp someone from Holocaust while breaking LNS rules is just another example. You can't teach cancer to not be cancer, you can only really remove it, and Azrael core has never had any ambition to make Red99 a better box, only to gear themselves and pad their own egos via the leaderboard.