Hot damn, Lhance wrote something insightful for once.
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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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1. Suspended players venting because they are going through pixel withdrawals, being unnecessarily angry and taking it out on "casuals" who posted their fun in NTOV.
***This is bullshit because being bitter that you can't raid shouldn't mean you have to tear down those who are able to raid. This is extremely childish.
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Yeah, maybe there is some passive aggressiveness coming out. It really comes down to being suspended for reasons that were altogether pretty mild.
- Awakened's first (recent) suspension was due to vulak being trained on AM when the mob was barely out of camp after the wipe and brought back on accident zoning in. It wasn't their FTE so they couldn't kill it even though they were actively trying to get a fresh FTE.
- Awakened's current suspension training their mages and not helping them recover is really cringy if you see the video. In all honesty we messed up and deserve to be dinged for this one. Nothing malicious however, just one guy being dumb. We are responsible for the people we run out there, however, so..
- Aftermath's current suspension is pretty weak IMO. Using a pull method that is technically against the rules but has been the de-facto method out of simple convince. The fact that Vyemm was conceded means nothing to me if they are not interfering with our ability to kill Vyemm. I guess AW must have petitioned to get them suspended I don't know.
All this to say that the current batch of suspensions is pretty weak. People calling for increased punishments for repeat offenders is either uninformed or trolling.
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2. "Casuals" claiming they have real lives, their guild tag proves so because it calls itself casual and those who raid in AM/AW all have no lives and do nothing but raid dragon pixels.
***This is bullshit because many of the so-called casuals put in just as much playtime as do the hardcore raiders if not more. The only difference is the activities the players partake while logged in the game. I know some AW/AM players who are logged in far less tha some of the "casuals" I know.
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Man this is the truth. Raiding plane of sky, kunark dragons, or whatever, for years on end is really not that different than ToV for your average player.
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3. AM/AW members claiming that "casuals" can't raid dragons because they don't put the work in to accomplish such a feat.
***This is bullshit because the groundwork and domination that AW/AM have atm was cemented long ago under the tags of other guilds with many of the same players who controlled the raid scene years ago. Most of the present members never put in any "work" they simply got invited to the gravy train raid guild and now are enjoying the pixels that rain down.
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Yep, we're standing on the shoulders of those who came before us who built up a mage army and condensed all the encounters down to a science. I've been in AW about 6-7 months now and about half the players are different than when I started. Sure there is still the core group that has been around a long time, but for the most part it's easy to hop on the gravy train. Sure things have come along that change the meta but we had time to adjust to these changes slowly over time. It's not that hard, come get pixles for 1/5 the effort it takes in another guild.