I can tell you Taken has 64. Of those 3-4 were bought, 2-3 came in from former Class C members and 4 of them are on people who had previous mains keyed and then swapped mains and got those new mains keyed - not by virtue of them being greedy, it's just those were the only players with 3 medallions complete when we got a 5-tooth Trakanon.
Looking through that list, Atleast 10 haven't raided in the past 3~ or so months. Plus I think 3-4 not included in the previous total, have since left the guild. Until our last two kills, we only had 2 clerics also (1 euro and 1 U.S. Time zone).
So in actuality, we have around a 40 maximum toon force available for VP. And again, about 20% of them are non-US time zone, and they don't always all log on for a batphone.
In order for Taken to compete currently in VP we would need to shift from our pretty typical 25% raid attendance to more like 80% among those keyed members (I'd say the keyed members tend to have higher than the guild average, closer to 40%).
I'm sure you have fun poking and prodding about jumping to Class C, but as the system stands and as retarded as the gatekeeper mob (Trakanon) is to compete on, it's just not feasible for any guild to make that jump.
To give a more tangible example - Our most recent Class R Trak kill spawned on a weekday around 9-10 PM EST (our most active time slot). We had 54 members in attendance (lolzerg, but Class R we want everyone to have a chance to run over and participate). Of those 54 members, only 20 held a VP key.
I mention that to illustrate, during our BEST time slot, on arguably one of the most valuable pixel mobs we kill... We batphoned and allowed 10-20 minutes of running and CotHing... And STILL only 20 keyed members were in attendance. We would be burning a shitload of SoulFire trying to kill VP mobs with those 20 members.
Casuals gonna be casual :/.
PS - Nice thread derail, I had to look to remember what this topic was originally about
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