If training isn't competition, then what is? What's to stop 3 different guilds from parking on top of Trak's spawn with 40 people and just waiting? FTE isn't competition -- it's luck. One idiot gets aggro before a bunch of other idiots, through no actual ability, and somehow his guild has more right to the mob than anyone else? And don't kid yourself, these dragons/gods are trivial. Get the numbers and they go down easy, assuming there are no extenuating circumstances (trains).
I don't see how training isn't competition. It is. I'm going to drop 30 mobs on you, you're going to drop 30 mobs on me -- let's see who's standing afterward. Conversely, if you want to avoid that type of dog eat dog mentality, you can just clear the majority of the zone. Or you can choose to cooperate and/or rotate in order to avoid training each other into submission. Raiding can take a lot of different forms when training is allowed. When it's not, raiding looks like this: FTE, mob melts down, see you next week.
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