Request for a different policy on (game-changing) specific item camps

[YendorLootmonkey]

These are guilds competing against other guilds. It is a competition for them. You are collateral damage in their competition. They don't intend to deny you the camp or the items on purpose. They are focused on one thing only... gearing up and becoming more capable than their competing guilds.

It has nothing to do with being a dick or whatever you want to call it, although I completely understand how you can feel that way, because you do not have the same mindset that they do.

They are not obligated to the casual player. You're talking about guilds that train and leapfrog each other in the spirit of "competition". This is how it has been since the start of Everquest and when the first uberguild formed on your Live server. There should be no surprises in how things work 11 years later.

Is it greedy? To the casual player, yes. To them, it's just part of the game. Put in time/effort, result in shiny trinket, go to next camp/raid, repeat.

You and them are not playing the same game. It might be called Everquest to both of you, but it's like you're playing flag football against a team that's tackling. You're the person telling the other player in Street Fighter to stop locking you down with Ryu's constant stream of fireballs, when all they want to do is win, while you're trying to set up some arbitrary rules for yourself to even the playing field.

Douchebaggery or not, it's how they chose to play the game. Not one single one of us has the right to tell another how one should play the game, or how one should derive enjoyment out of the game. It just doesn't work that way, and it never has. So you can choose to accept it and wait for a guild locking down a camp to slip up, join a guild yourself that can lock down the camp, spend the time farming stuff so you can buy it (you know, like every melee ever had to buy FBSS from solo casters locking down Frenzy), or sit here and butt heads and get all frustrated over trying to change an entire mindset of like 50% of the server.