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Originally Posted by teija
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I would say FTE'ing a dragon and having 45 seconds to get a cleric chain, tank rotation, speedbump list, and a train-up ready before the dragon hits your camp takes a bit more skill than taking your sweet as time (1 hour) and clearing a few trash mobs before casually killing the dragon.
The casuals this rule was made to help do not even compete anymore making a boring and stale raid scene. When casuals cried and said they wanted to clear to dragons and than proceeded to copy AM/AW's pull style when given the chance was the most hilarious thing ever, I think Sevalak has sat up for 2+ days before without CSG attempting a clear to him. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
I only started playing in velious after the FTE race and 1 hour grace period was in place (or at least was raiding by then). So correct me if I'm wrong, weren't those instant pulls all in kunark on 32k hp mobs that died Hella fast?
I will concede that what you describe does take a well organized machine to pull off on velious era mobs which does take some skill. However, it still is trivial in a lot of ways. The longer the game is played, the more alts get made, toons are left perma camped at high value raid targets, wipes are easy to recover from since mob is engaged at zone line and no corpse summons needed, freaking mallet dumping to get agro, soulfire / reaper / blafestopper / wort pots...
I still believe the raid scene is about dedication, not skill. All the wall staring is ridiculous. You always cry that casuals want welfare pixels, we just don't ENJOY staring at walls for 16 hour Windows! Even for a 1 hour shift! It just isn't fun.
And about CSG not crawling during A/A suspension I was indeed disappointed about that. Even made a post on guild site asking for it, just on 1 mob. Something about being worried the mob may go to FFA or couldn't dedicate the resources or something. Agree whole heartedly we should have crawled and not hit the pixel codeine button and pull to zone line.