My reply was 100% honest, but you seem to have misunderstood my argument, so let me try and simplify it down for you. Since this isn't RnF I'll replace one word with underscores:
Ok, hopefully
now that reduced version let's you understand my point. It has nothing to do with anything you wrote, or anything to do with who you or anyone else thinks
deserves an item. Shiny brass idols are not inherently raid-only items, anymore than Stinging Wort Potions, Reapers, OT Hammers, etc. I don't tell Aftermath how to raid, and Aftermath shouldn't get to tell the server how (or whether) they get to use Shiny Brass Idols. And it also goes directly against the postings of numerous Aftermath members, including guild leader Detoxx, about how important
competition is to them
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But ultimately the staff, not you and not me, gets to decide the rules. They decide what kind of server they want, and to be fair they are
not white knights. For years they allowed and even encouraged TMO (Aftermath's even more powerful predecessor) to monopolize all raid content on the server. For years no one but TMO could do any significant Kunark raid bosses.
Eventually though, enough people complained, and Rogean heard their concerns. Since the dark days of TMO we've seen that guild (essentially) be forced to split up, by the staff. We've seen Class R and C rotations introduced by the staff. We've seen new rules to prevent camp lockdowns (eg. you can't hold a camp by corpsing lore items), again from the staff.
So again, ultimately all that matters is what the staff thinks, not what the players think, but again it is
perfectly legitimate for a player (like the guy I was replying to) to ask that staff "hey you're against one guild monopolizing raid targets, you're against people endless camping the AC by corpsing rings, so it seems kind of counter to what you're trying to achieve here to let one guild monopolize
any camp for
any item in the game ... even if that camp is for an item that raiders like use to pull (unclassically) in raids?"
Now, if I had to guess the staff's response, it'd be that there's no clear and easy rule to fix this, or at least not one that doesn't create a lot more work for them (and as we all know the staff are already swamped right now). So I'm guessing this is less a philosophical question about the server they want, and more a practical question of the server they can actually support. But those are pure guesses, and until we hear from an actual staff member there's no way to know what they think ... except to keep asking them questions, like the guy I responded to did.