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Originally Posted by Fammaden
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but at the same time you have to wonder if there's an ulterior motive since I assume they believe they have all the best racers/FTE'rs in Freedom.
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This is a fair point, as you're correct that I believe Freedom has the best Racers/FTErs. I'd go as far as to say that most other guilds believe the same thing. Two things about that though.
1. Racing in ToV is much more of a crapshoot than racing in Kael. Sometimes, when racing for a far target, such as koi/ladym/vulak/trips/twins, being clearly ahead of everyone else isn't necessarily a good thing. Watching old FTE videos, there were plenty, if not a majority of the time where the person who won FTE was in 2nd/3rd most of the race. It's all fun and games until DA wears off and you get one rounded. Racing in ToV is as much about not being killed on the way up as it is being the fastest.
2. Racing guarantees you a chance at killing the mob. But it does not guarantee that you kill it. If we win a Vulak FTE at 5am, and can't muster the people to get it down in 2 hours, we don't get the mob. As is, if Vulak spawns at 5am, Riot is getting the mob, virtually 0 chance it's being killed by anyone else.
The bottom line is, I could have 60 of the best raiders this server ever had, all in best in slot or near best in slot gear. (Hypothetically speaking) Yet we would still have 0 chance at killing Vulak, unless we either got trained and they conceded... or pulled off a miracle. This is not classic nor is it competitive. What's the minimum number of people a guild needs to kill Vulak in a competitive environment? Too damn high is the answer. Before rooted dragons, the number was 40-50.
To expand on to Conda's points, I very much understand why Rog rooted them. Sirken was forced out, Braknar ninja posted a thread about how ToV was on a permanent rotation because he very quickly learned how annoying it was to deal with 30 fraps an ordeal, with two sides vehemently declaring that the other side is 100% at fault. (This is all assumption) Then Braknar quit the project because Rogean said no to a permanent rotation (because that's an awful idea) and because Rog and nilbog "Don't care about it and won't do anything about it so why should I" So he felt like something drastic needed to be done. So he did it.
Sadly, the whole time, all that needed to be done was for the guilds to work together without jumping down each other throats. Training mobs to zoneline was a fun, and very unique version of raiding that didn't exist in any MMO ever. A truly competitive PVE environment.With adrenaline pumping action, and an insanely high skill gap. So if there IS a mess right now, it's us (the players) faults.
So, I disagree it was a terrible idea. I understand it. However.... it did ruin raiding in some ways. Even if we wanted to ignore the fact that rooting the dragons led to this server becoming a one guild ordeal.......... Red hasn't killed vulak once since. I'm almost positive. In fact, raiding is completely dead over there now.
Most interesting though, is that even if ToV was reverted back to March 2019, it wouldn't necessarily be the same as then. You can't push to cancel casting anymore! So while i can't speak intelligently about whether or not that is classic, or if it's over tuned as is (I really don't know at all) you'd probably have to run one hell of a Mana Sieve chain to stop mobs gating.
I do know that if we could move the mobs a little bit (I.E not rooted) that hypothetical 60 man raid comprised of the best raiders on p99 would certainly have a chance at Vulak. We'd be able to engage vulak away from his guards, yet close enough to where he wouldn't gate, even if zone line pulls were no longer viable. My point is there WOULD be wiggle room other than "lol bring more people" or "It's YOUR LEADERSHIPS FAULT FOR NOT FORMING ALLIANCES" or whatever weirdos say.
But, with zero changes made to how the dragons in ToV behave, I can't think of a better answer than, make them a foot race.