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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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What are you talking about? Exactly what casual players and guilds compete with the neckbeards for top end raid mobs?
As for me personally, I participated enough in a raid guild to fully grasp the concept of how raiding works on this server. Long enough to know greed overrides any sense of decency within them. Pixels > all, period.
Basically a select core group of players run the raid guild with personal armies of alts/officers and they play one another's accounts if and when a certain class is needed.
This coterie group of neckbeards ensure they always have the best chance to rack up DKP by way of a system that rewards their neckbearding lifestyle.
This enables them to gear up their mains as well as their small personal army of alts.
In the typical P99 raid guild, fringe guild members ride the coattails of the hardcore neckbeards praying that eventually some of those pixels will trickle down to them.
It is possible if they kiss enough ass or ride the DKP train for multiple months or years that they too might just manage to get their main geared in said raid guild.
The raid scene here is abysmal and casuals already get railroaded... stop trying to pretend that casuals have ever had a chance to raid anything worthwhile on this server.
Any change to how the raid scene works here is good, and if changes are set in place that create a system where more communication and cooperation between guilds is necessary then that's even better.
Also any changes that make raiding more challenging is only one more plus. Raid mobs should not be pulled in exploitive fashion and easily killed, period.
The only thing hurting casuals chances to raid on this server is the greed of the neckbeard, nothing else.
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So you basically never raided? Speaking from the aftermath perspective at least, I don't know of any officer or leader who has an army of alts geared out. The way the bidding process is done, anyone can stop an alt from getting an item that they want by just bidding the minimum. Anything in Aftermath that goes to an alt goes to an alt because no one valued it enough to meet the minimum bid. If you are referring to 2nd mains, just about any raid entity either has 2nd mains or they random fro drops anyway, if not one of those two options then its a newer guild and players just haven't had the time to level up more toons. I personally have 3 lvl 60s I have leveled myself and one more that is almost there, and I started without knowing anyone on the server.
While there are "casuals" even in the top 2 guilds, they are there and welcomed because it takes both the hard core beards along with the baby faced casuals to kill a target. Albeit less so now with the 1 hour FTE. Every change to the raid rules makes it more challenging, at least until the scene adapts to them and then it becomes the same repetitive stuff until the next change or nerf happens. The problem is that the people who will adapt to these changes the fastest are the ones willing to put in the most time to do so. You make fun of them for the amount of time they put into the game but that is there choice just as its the choice of others not to put in the time. Saying that they don't deserve more in return for time invested is just stupid and obviously not how the server GMs see it.