An alternative to variance

[Juryiel]

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

You aren't being limited in getting kills due to rotation constraints.

Your own membership's size, and playtime, coupled with stupid 16-hour variance windows are what are inhibiting your guild from killing Trakanon.

The reason I care is because it allowed guilds to get 2 kills in the time others got 1, because getting a kill and lockout wasn't dropping guilds to the bottom of the rotation.

And again, you can suggest these guilds could threaten to go FFA, but they won't. Because they are casual and only have 4-hour windows to work with.

Still makes no sense to me. 2 guilds capable of killing a mob get 2x the kills as 1 guild capable of killing a mob. They get more kills but there's more guilds. Both are assumed to be capable to solo the mob. If you want to participate in more kills you can always ally with guilds too. YOU could be one of the guilds the smaller guild goes to for an alliance friend when they need one, and you can share in the kill and the loot.

As far as FFA, if the class R list is 10 guilds long and a mob spawns once a week, that's 10 weeks. If I get one shot at it every 10 weeks and only have a 17% chance to have it spawn during a time I can kill it (Since I'm barred from an alliance) it is definitely far better for me to try my hand at FFA. If my guild is competitive during those 4 hours we're on, we'll surely get more that way. And even if we don't, we'll at least have the fun of trying. Getting together to go after a dragon etc.

The FFA thing is not a 'threat', again I think you think of it wrong. It's just that there is no incentive to be bound by the rotation if I'm in that situation. Why woudl I give up the freedom to go after a mob whenever it spawns during my window? What do I get in return for doing that? The rotation slot is not a reward to be given. The rotation slot is a sacrifice from any guild who can kill a mob. They are doing YOU (and other rotation guilds) a favor by being in that slot. If they are not in that slot, all other guilds on the rotation suffer to the point where it can lead to rotation collapse. Maybe such a guild can't outcompete the larger class R guilds, but it probably can outcompete the smaller ones, so yes if they FFA and were actually capable, they would screw up the rotation.