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"I want less people to play a game that ive admitted im bored of, how can i use book-length pseudointellectual arguments to justify this?"

I mean youre right that this will change the high-end meta. Itll shut out existing possibilities for smaller guilds and groups while favoring the largest guilds that can field the most bodies. Itll favor people willing to shell out for powerlevelling.

I think you have a fantasy that smaller groups of high-level players will come up with ingenious solutions that let them navigate the absurd new meta. But in reality, there are no ingenious workaround solutions for some problems, "moar bodies" is the only workaround, and this will just lead to more cheesing and more consolidation. It will be the most antisocial thing imaginable as people quickly lose interest in a server with a much lower population than Classic. It might literally kill P99, and it will certainly make it less of a creative problem-solving experience by far.

Again, I genuinely think that, as you've stated, you're bored with the game and aren't really doing this for any good faith reasons. But if you somehow are, i hope you exercise some critical thinking--not just gaudy, context-free number crunching, but genuine critical thinking, and consider how the ecosystem balance that P99 exists in are fundamentally different than classic, due to lower population to name only one thing. When was the last time you tried, as a non-professional player, to help lead a mid-sized guild full of people of varying skill level and equipment to success in a raid? I did that last night. I can tell you right now that if we were arbitrarily nerfed with the nebulous promise that MAYBE content will SOMEDAY get easier, what we did would have been impossible, and that everyone's patience would have been long since depleted because the only guilds left that could do anything would be the ones already incumbent with power and game experience.

Honestly, i wish i was trolling. Its rather embarrassing to be the only one in this discussion who is being sincere and advocating for the actual people who play the game. But here i am, being sincere while talking to a big fat concern-trolling ret--a big fat concern trolling retiree, ahem.

Go join a small guild or go play another game.