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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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18 hours isn't going to be the rapid-fire respawn that you seem to think it is. It takes less than 20 minutes for TMO to mobilize and take down a mob once it spawns. Multiple priority targets popping at the same time is going to be the exception, not the rule. Maybe they'll choose to let a Maestro, Sev, or Talendor slide every now and then, but they're not going to have any problem at all taking down Trak, VS, Inny, CT, VP, and Gore. They don't even have any real competition for VP and Gore.
There are two scenarios given an 18-hour variance. One is that TMO will go zone to zone annihilating everything as it spawns, and the only hope other guilds will have is to poopsock. This is the most likely scenario.
The other is that TMO will poopsock Trak and/or VS with BDA for 18 hours.
There's one thing in common with both of those scenarios: return of the sock. It's not classic, it's not how the endgame was meant to be played, and there's no reason for it. There are 9,000 better ways to cater to a small European population that, as Autotune pointed out, doesn't even comprise a guild of their own at the moment.
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You're very right, 18hrs is not going to make it rapid fire respawn every time it comes around, but that's not exactly what it's intended to do.
While you get the 18hr windows, you basically only deal with them every other week. Guilds would get bi-weekly repops (something that should be in already) and then the next week they get the variance. 18hrs won't give them rapid fire repops, but does put urgency into targets as well as priority when it comes to decision making for guilds.
BDA can take out most (if not all) of VP. Divinity can kill many of the kunark dragons solo, same with taken and some of the other guilds (only difficult one being gore). Smaller guilds can take out some of the same dragons and other targets.
I honestly see nearly every raid capable guild joining in and taking a slice of the pie where they can and as previous p99 history tells me, during repops most guilds try to travel the path of least resistance.
All this does is eliminate the advantage that huge guilds hold over small guilds. If nothing else, it gets the smaller/normal guilds involved.
Who cares if they poop sock a few windows here and there, odds are that they won't have to poop sock long, if even at all. Not all windows ride out to a poopsock.