I don't like to get into nonsense forum wars, but this was a bit after the fight was over:
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I also have tells from people inside Azrael, prior to the Fear fight, saying things to the effect of: "We have 45 fucking people online, why the hell aren't we engaging yet?!"
Arguing the numbers at this point is moot. You guys had "roughly" 45 Azrael + Force + Curse. We had "roughly" 25. I would say the lower levels in Curse and maybe some Force evened out with some of our lower level and newer apps. So you're still looking at ALMOST a 2:1 numbers advantage. In hindsight, we probably should've moved the fight to North Wall in Fear, but we stood our ground and fought 'til the end. We were also missing about 6 of our geared melees. Game changing? Maybe - not for me to say, but our makeup was also less than fantastic. Still, we fought. And we did quite well early on. The Fear fight was actually leaning in our favor for probably the first 40-50% of the fight. At some point it tilted in the opposite direction when the Fear portal turned into the door of a clown car and people just kept pouring out. Such is the nature of EQ PVP though.
Point is, we got outnumbered 2:1, we got outplayed. We lost a fight and lost a few pixels. Oh well - it was a damn fun way to lose pixels, that's for sure. I just hope it keeps up. As much propaganda as everyone can sling back and forth, everyone knows the server is better with competition. Kudos to all involved - awesome night.