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What casual guilds really want from us is for us to stop trying so hard.[/QUOTE]
It has been clearly established over a very long period of time now that there is no limit to how hard the neckbeard nerds will go to make sure they get pixels and no one else does. If it came out to "trying very hard gets us more pixels" no one would really mind, but unfortunately it is "trying INSANELY hard gets us ALL the pixels" instead. Historically, when people showed they could not be trusted not to take something to far beyond stupid lengths just to somehow make themselves believe they were superior to everyone else, devs would step in. This is how Time and later expansions got instanced, this is why WoW was made. Because there is no limit beyond these people.
If rules can bring it from "all the pixels" to just "more of the pixels", then rules will work. If not, then the server staff needs to step in and enforce something else. Or they can just do nothing, and we'll see how many FTEers and trackers are left by midsummer. I'm honestly morbidly curious.
The funniest thing is, as a caster main I don't even care. The server timeline ends before anything appears in game that can significantly differentiate me from anyone else. There's no focus effects and no AA. The best geared clerics in AM and Awakened can probably get off one, perhaps two more cheals at the extreme high end if FT is working properly now, someone has enough of it, and the fight goes on long enough, than I can. They don't heal for more, they don't heal faster, they don't heal more efficiently or anything else. Being the best is so fucking pointless as a caster even in the pitiful context of P1999, lol. I could see the allure of it for melees with those weapon ratios always increasing and the gear not quite to the level of maxing every melee stat yet, but for me? It's mindboggling to me that there are still people who care *that much* after what, six years now, of "being better". By now, even the dullest Phil McKracken should have figured it out by now.
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