Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments

[Hyjalx]

I hate to say it, but they are both failed experiments.

We are years into Velious and the current meta is throwing 100+ people at targets that can be done with 30-40 or less on a 10 year old server. The list of guilds that have crumbled because of this is staggering. The current rules have ultimately caused guild attrition, community upheaval, and soon to be a monopolization of content.

Requiring an 80+ man raid force to even have a chance on smaller targets in WToV is just not sustainable, and frankly, its just not good for the community.


The 4-way and zone in should remain safe, but dragons should still be pullable as long as they remain in the wing in which they spawn.


Foot Racing is also a failed experiment.

Forcing players to foot race is actually pretty ridiculous. It was abused by alt-tabbers for quite some time until the levi requirement, but it still encourages intense wall staring by multiple players using google hangouts rather than 2 with a mage. It's also essentially a mini-game within itself where some players PRACTICE the routes (there are arcade games like this) to perfection. How many players outside the big 2 actually have a shot against this? Meta EQ always required mage teams. Every guild has a spare mage by now and someone willing to hit the COTH button.

We have repeated history on p99 several times. We always change the rules, just to end up going back to the way things were. I hate to say it, but I think this is another one of those times.