I have always had much less than a positive view of raid guilds. For the most part, what they do involves 10x as much waiting, is an incredibly lengthy and totally boring click fest, and most of the time is actually easier than say a correct level group holding a camp deep in Perma.
So they'll repeat these hours-long festivals of ennui and in the case of Seal Team, follow the orders of someone where it should take less than 30 seconds to detect that he long ago unlocked the douchenozzle extraordinaire achievement, and are so totally obsessed with having the things they want that they think nothing of screwing over dozens of people to farm and hold a camp for days on end.
The really odd thing is they seem completely convinced that people are somehow impressed with this and wish they too could be pathologically obsessed blackbelt assholes with some of THE least-merited arrogance in the entire goddamned world. By example, the owner of the biggest pile of raw shit in Zambia has orders of magnitude more valid reasons for being arrogant about their accomplishments than do jerkass raid guilds like we have here.
The best thing for the GAME of EQ would be to separate them from said game and give them their own raid-focused world to play in.
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