Just to beat a dead horse I also think Sirken is dead wrong, for two huge reasons:
#1. Casual guilds do not want to track shit for 96 hours. I know all the TMO guys like to brag about their great family/social lives, but the reality is in total that guild probably put in 500 hours of mindnumblingly boring 'wait-for-raid-mob-to-pop-while-watching-dvd' per week. I don't want to do that, and the majority of P1999 does not want to do that, because it is a huge waste of time.
#2. Because of #1, Casual guilds have very little experience at mobilization. Sure, TMO has a huge advantage there because they have practice and tons of spare accounts that they have purchased with all the pp they get from farming the raid mobs. I guarantee that if linked respawns are limited, the casual guilds will start putting a lot more time into resist gear, WC caps, OT hammers, and all around getting faster and mobilizing. Plus, TMO can't camp out everywhere.
Overall I find it hilarious that you are talking about how variance is there for the smaller guilds when under normal circumstances TMO gets 90% of raid targets, BDA gets 10%, and everyone else gets 0. In other words, linked respawns can hardly be worse than the current system.
TL;DR: How about instead of worrying about the freaking compass you guys fix the non-classic raid scene that literally no one on the server likes?
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