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Originally Posted by Fanguru [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Growing guilds do not get a shot at content with variance.

Yes the can, but you will never get top tier targets. Everquest has never been hey new casual guy here is your free loot pinata. Velktor was up for I think 3 days before he got killed recently. Woushi gets killed reluctantly by any guild that can because he is an inconvenience, he usually remains up for a full day. Vindi is up every 7-9 hours, and there is less of a crush to get him.

In Velious you cannot split your raid in two. No guild can do both King Tormax and Aaryonar at the same time. Quite the contrary actually: top tier guilds have to make alliances to kill mobs one at a time..

In the current state of raiding guilds this is true. If it wasn't for the Fosaken/Asgard alliance being a constant thorn in the side of rampage they must chose which to go for. As soon as either side bites the dust, you can leave the hard stuff up because you know nobody can kill it, they would kill lower tier stuff first. This is the problem we had when it was just TMO.

A top tier guild could do 2 or 3 Kunark targets at the same time, but none wants to do that when all upgrades are in Velious.

Again this is you complaining that you won't get BiS stuff in velious, kunark is damn near untouched. I hear bda now actually clears down to trakanon instead of CotH races.

Variance only keeps top tier guilds out of HoT during prime targets windows.

That sounds like some envious bullshit there. You complain about not getting any velious content, then turn around and complain about the good stuff you get. HoT will better gear a guild than all of kunark minus weapon itemization.

Apart from that, variance ensures you will never get a shot at a Velious target. Their respawns are so far apart that the major guilds will be tracking them all the time and killing them one by one.

So don't track all of them like the major guilds, pick one and go for it.

With much less variance, windows would overlap and major guilds would have to prioritize, leaving less desired targets for the upcoming guilds to gear up and catch up.

Windows already overlap, its why kunark remains available. Get good at that stuff. Consistently do well at vindi. If you need an alliance to do those things or can't do that stuff for whatever reason, then you have no shot at high end velious content end of story.