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Originally Posted by Maner
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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.
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I said the typical raid guild on the server. I never was in Aftermath so I can't say how you operate etc.
You are right, I did limited raiding on P99. It took me a matter of 2-3 months of being in a raid guild to understand the mentality of their leadership and I found it distasteful to say the least.
Maybe I hold a lot more resentment than I should against raiders in general on this server, but my very limited time spent in a raid guild here was an eye-opening experience, and frankly overwhelmingly disappointing.
I joined the raid guild thinking it would be a close-knit community of players willing to help one another when in fact the majority of the players that got any help were the inner circle who needed the least amount of help.
Occasionally a fringe player would voice their unhappiness with how "help" was spread or not spread around for members of the guild, and they would be silenced with "Just give it time. Help the guild (the greedy neckbeards), and eventually one day we will help you."
I can say with certainty the greed of the players on this server has totally destroyed any chances of "casuals" ever getting to raid as the meta operates now.
Pretending that monk nerfs is actually going to hurt casuals chances of raiding is the typical type of crap a true neckbeard would spew to defend the present scheme of things in raiding on P99.
If there's any way to preserve the defunct system in place now that lets them soak up as much of the high end pixels possible, they will try to do it, even by proclaiming monk nerfs will hurt the "poor casuals" chances at raid mob shinies. You know, the same shiny pixels that casuals never get anyway.