raiding seems heavily over-camped, was live like that?

[Lagaidh]

Actually... it was on the Rathe. I started a mere 3 months after launch and already there were three planes-raiding guilds.

Folks that don't remember this... did you just not raid then or concern yourself with knowing about it? I didn't raid, but it was hard to ignore the drama a few guilds caused.

It eased with expansions. However, there will always be X% at the bleeding edge of endgame content. The players in that X% will bump into each other a lot.

It seemed quite okay by the time Velious rolled around. Of course... I'll admit I didn't really pay attention to the raiding situation of that end game content. I started getting to the planes and some of the Kunark raids.

But back when there was only one expansion's worth of end game... yeah... it was crowded. You knew this even if you didn't raid.