All Players are Raid Suspended Until Further Notice

[Elmarnieh]

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

I don't even.

Think of the "gear gap" we want to maintain like this: I basically have the #1 or #2 (considering Hasbinbad is an app atm) rogue in our guild. Only pieces of equipment that aren't A) sky B) EC bought from months of plat farming are a Cloak of Piety (a minor upgrade to SBC I had prior to it), Golden Efreeti Vambs (and most every rogue would be wearing Mithril Vambraces over these) and recently a VP offhander that adds tiny amount of parse difference to EoN (and probably will get me killed cuz of goofyass dd proc).

There is no massive gear difference from what you can get doing sky or tunnel ratting. A druid having a leafblower isn't going to make him heal for more or nuke harder, a wizard having a couple mana tick rune clicky isnt going to make or break a raid, most every SK with his disco sword is barely ever meleeing anything. The amount of plat people can make and have made on the server is huge, and everyone and anyone can get a CoF within a month if they have any clue what to go farming.

There hardly exists a vast gear gap that gives us or TMO a sheer Velious advantage. The resist gear people wear is basically the same damned diamond jewelry, only big thing going on with a max VP decked tank and one wearing indicolite is that they might have 300 more hp. TMO isn't going to beat everyone to Zlandicar because their shamans can clicky buff 10 all stats. The gear difference is nearly nonexistant in Kunark, so it's delusional to assume we'd want to block all raiding altogether to maintain something that really isn't there. As far as I can see, TMO was not blocking the dragons because it gives them a gear advantage, it's because it got them applicants and kept the machine going, as such keeping them ready whenever Velious would pop up.

Furthermore, FE IB and TMO are all raiding guilds; if they're not raiding, the people in them are barely online. Acting like the standstill in negotiations and the current serverwide raiding suspension outcome is somehow favorable to us is absolutely ridiculous. This is only going to hurt all of us since people will probably go play Rust or Minecraft or whatever and potentially not log back in when the whole thing gets resolved. If we sit 3-4 months doing nothing but sitting around farming HS or playing snes emulator, our numbers are going down hard.

Which is one character, albeit a potent dps. Wizard epics, mage epics, ranger epics (all major upgrades) are on mobs that are on more or less farm rotation by TMO or FE/IB and secured wholly by them. Druid natureskin click robes and other major upgrades are had only in VP which no other current guild has touched. The saves and stats on PD's helm alone is a massive upgrade for every class.

Although I commend you focusing on the least affected class by top end raid content in order to bolster your presentation it is not an accurate reflection of the raid-wise ability increase that comes from gearing at that tier for as long as you have.