Facts are that there are actually 6 guilds that are getting highly contested FTEs and kills in under an hour.
Aftermath, Awakened, Azure Guard, Europa, Omni and Rustle.
Cons to Aftermath/Awakened: your playtime needs to be higher to see the good loot and you will likely need to do some serious FTEing to keep a slot in the dkp line up. More hardcore.
Pros to Aftermath/Awakened: you get more loot from high end content and it is spread across less people.
Cons to Azure Guard/Europa/Omni: you don't see as many high end FTEs and a good portion of the playtime of those FTEs is going to be while you are at work if you are a USA est player. Loot is also spread across three guilds.
Pros to Azure Guard/Europa/Omni: The large number of people means you can raid high end content at a leisurely pace with no raid requirements. Lots of hourly farming raids to build dkp outside of poopsocking. Omni doesnt use a dkp system if that isn't your thing. There is a fantastic infrastructure that keeps the guilds identified as different entities and they all have different time zones.
Cons to Rustle: As casual guilds go, Rustle doesn't race as often as the Azure Guard/Europa/Omni alliance but they do race well. Rustle are primarily a USA pm prime time guild.
Pros to Rustle: As a single entity, they are probably the most casual about raid mobs and raiding. With less people to spread the racing out rustle will focus on a few mobs and put their effort behind that and win those races often enough. I hear they are dkp but have a first item goes to the FTEr policy for some dkp expenditure. They have some very experience players and good leadership.
With 2 hard core guilds and 4 casual guilds spanning across all time zones and languages I'm not sure how the server could hold more guilds wanting more content. Why would any individual player or guild leader want to make more guilds for this content rather than join an established one? This server has both casuals and hardcore. Both have to make sacrifices to make the raid environment something in the middle. No one is happy and neither extreme will ever be implimented.
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