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Originally Posted by Lagaidh
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How long does it take the top guilds' repeated clearings of these high-end targets before the members have what they want?
I'm not trying to bait anyone. I came from a rotation server where the top guild contained unimaginable pricks, but even they agreed to the rotation scheme after a while.
I'm trying to understand a side of the coin I've never been on. By the time I was in a hardcore raid guild in live, we were a good expansion behind in end game, so we didn't bump into this much.
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The state of the server now is such that people can fly to 50, get all / most of their planes/god loot and be bored in 4-6 months. People get to 50, get all of their stuff and get bored because kunark isn't around yet, so they either directly or indirectly quit out of boredom.
The raiding guilds then have to replace them with new folks to stay at a functional number for raiding current content with very sparse drops (see a below), content we are waiting to be fixed (b), and to be ready for the mystery day kunark goes live.
(a) Dragon haste items / crystaline spear are really amazing items from dragons that tons of melee in IB/DA/Div need. Vox Cloak is uber as hell. Robe / clicky from CT have been rare as well and are amazing. If these mobs dropped 6 items per kill, it's conceivable we wouldn't be fighting so hard over them, but some of these items remain best in slot until you start getting epics / killing trakanon, etc. As it is, these mobs drop 2-3 items per kill from a loot table of 8-12 items, some of which are barely worth having. Since they spawn once a week instead of the possibly multiple times/week on live, there are tons of folks who have been around a while still in need of this gear.
(b) We'd love to spend more days in sky, but there are mechanics up there right now that are notably broken that keep folks from advancing. It's not awesome to have a dozen people summonned under the world and drop out of the zone as soon as you engage anything on bee island, destroying the keys that they have been meticulously refreshing for months.
Long story short, there are a lot more 50s with much higher turnover to equip on this server than there were in live at this stage of the game, and loot enters the world slower for a number of reasons.