The current state of the server is a very even playing field right now with 50-70ish guild numbers each for Kindgom, Force of Will and Seal Team. Seal Team no longer commands 90-100 players for their NTOV crawls. I suspect because many of their long term members retired/breaking (experienced everything) or left (ala defecting to Safe Space).
In an effort to maintain their command on Vulak (through necessity of killing Vyemm), Seal Team is pairing with Force of Will during every earthquake and Vyemm/Vulak natural spawn for the last several months - and offering third pick on Vulak loot to FoW to gain numbers sufficient to kill Vyemm and Vulak.
FoW has been revitalized of recent due to this new access to end game content with many more members than it would typically yield (as they have a no-socking mentality), and Kingdom continues to progress (recently getting first time kills in Sleepers Tomb) while developing its own alliances with Castle (tunare/ring wars) and Safe Space (ring war/ntov).
All in all, any guild on this server will have it's ebbs and flows. Seal Team's numbers are less than what they desire, and to remedy this are passing late pick, yet excellent quality loot, to other guilds to continue to gear themselves and monopolize Vulak. Whether this will eventually shoot them in the foot (speculation is that FoW is demanding more) or works to their advantage by developing a true merger between FoW and ST - is all yet to be seen.
All in all it's an exciting time to be on P99 Green - I just hope that all guilds who desire to compete and enjoy the content will be able to field numbers and reduce burn out for many months to come - as without our competition, EQ is lackluster - and for that, I applaud any recruitment posts for end game guilds.
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