As someone who spent 18 months leading their own guild on p99 with intentions of casual progression I can honestly say no smaller or semi casual raiding guild stands a chance at progressing through content at a fair pace.
Sure they will clear hate, fear, sky...but in order to even stand a chance at killing any bosses you need to batphone, camp a force at the mob, and have a dedicated raiding crew who will log on at any time of day.
I highly doubt removal of variance would change that at all, in fact I think it would do more harm to the smaller casual raiding guilds. I'm just making observations based on my personal experiences here. If the people who feel the raiding scene on p99 is stagnant and unbalanced, then my suggestion would be to band together and form a new guild.
I have seen many quality guilds come and go here because they are unwilling to sell out in the way the higher end raiders have and due to their unwillingness to adapt. I think if divinity, taken, full circle, bda, and whatever other smaller mid tier raiders are around banded together and refined their ways they would find themselves in a much better position to kill the boss mobs they want.
Sadly on an emulated server guilds who wish to progress without dedicating unrealistic amounts of time to it they must have the numbers to support that goal without their core group getting burnt out.
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