Is the raid scene really that bad?

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by Autotune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No one really races TMO for mobs.

The barrier to entry for a new raid guild is huge. Let's face it: your new guild is not going to be hugely better than TMO; the game simply isn't complex enough. So even if your guild succeeds, you can expect to get about 50% of the mobs. Tracking and batphoning is bad enough, when you get up in the middle of the night to kill CT and spend 3 hours dodging DT cycles and then the other guild kills something? That sucks.

Then of course there is the matter of practice. Realistically speaking you can probably expect to put in all that time for a few months with very few successes while you figure out the pull strats and people start to work together better.

And finally even if you get that far, TMO will still have a huge advantage in VP. I'd guess TMO has at least 200 VP keyed toons if not more; FE at their height had like 40-50 I thought.

In fact those three paragraphs are basically the story of FE, and not too surprisingly they burned out, although they did make it interesting for a while.