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Originally Posted by Lyra
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Our server did have rotations eventually, but the rotation was shared among the power gaming guilds. Friendlyfamilyguild still wasn't in the rotation.
I don't think you should give up on rotations here.
I'll add too(on my server anyway) power gamers didn't communicate on forums. They communicated in game, because that is where they were when they weren't sleeping.
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Servers with rotations, at least mine, usually let the "Friendlyfamilyguild" have their shot when asked nicely, mostly because "Friendlyfamilyguild" weren't a threat to them. They were severely underleveled, didn't know the strat, usually didn't have the required gear, much less things like resist gear or clickies, not that they would have known what to do with those. They would just sit back and watch them wipe then move in for the kill, and still get thanked for the opportunity.
That's the difference between then and now, knowledge. People playing here are not casual in the same standard as casual people were back then, simply because they read these forums, know about such things as rotations and respawn time, heck they have more 60s than most raiding guilds did back then.
Every casual raiding guild here could probably kill anything short of Gore and a few VP dragons given the uncontested opportunity, it's only logical for high end guilds to not want to risk it.
Not to mention that back then, encounters were actually "hard", fourteen years later the strats are widely known and mostly obsolete, as rushing 5 times the amount of players at a monster than the encounter was designed for will trivialize anything. On live my guild didn't have a raid roster like what we see on p99 until Ssra, and were considered a "zerg" guild. So today the only challenge that remains, what top guilds are looking for, is actually the race.
But yeah, that's just my experience on one of the 40 servers back on live.