Gear and playtime don't give an advantage.

[SamwiseRed]

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

Guys - This game has been out for 13 years and it's combat pace is slow as molasses.

Skill isn't much of a factor. Unless you are mentally retarded.

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[Nune]

I'm only a top dog pver here bcause I am the people's champ, helpin the youngins find their path in the ways of norrath. Not te kind of people's champ that joins the zerg force like that dwarf pally faggot

[Orotiagito]

As a standpoint from a new players, if I were to play 2 Ogre SK's the one that I give the Ebon Mace to is going to level faster and be able to solo mobs at lower health, less deaths and able to kill higher levels mobs at faster rate.

I get your point, but gear does effect solo play and overall group output a lot. In raiding probably not a huge deal as long as everyone plays their role correctly - as Thulack said 50 intelligent players outweighs 30 geared lazy fucks. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Peekae]

Establishing a guild is the only hard part the actual raiding is easy as long as you have the people camped and willing to log when the mob spawns.

As it sits now it's hard to recruit dedicated people because going through a 3 week app status beeline to vp gear is much easier than joining and helping establish a young upstart.

In the end as long as you are having fun though doesn't matter .

[Cecily]

Only exception I can think of is dueling Gaffin. Then it's 100% gear.

[Gaffin']

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

Only exception I can think of is dueling Gaffin. Then it's 100% gear.

[Wotsirb401]

It seems to be hard to create a guild to compete with FE/IB and TMO becasue the supply of people willing to camp out isnt very high. I know there are former people who used to do it in BDA and other guilds but the numbers just aren't there for all the Midnight-8am spawn times

[Kegir]

Originally Posted by Wotsirb401 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems to be hard to create a guild to compete with FE/IB and TMO becasue the supply of people willing to camp out isnt very high. I know there are former people who used to do it in BDA and other guilds but the numbers just aren't there for all the Midnight-8am spawn times

There would be more people willing to if there wasn't extended extended extended variance.

Hard for the more casual guilds to camp toons out at a target when theres a chance he wont spawn for over a week.

[dav]

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

There would be more people willing to if there wasn't extended extended extended variance.

Hard for the more casual guilds to camp toons out at a target when theres a chance he wont spawn for over a week.

Using last VS as an example I agree, that was quite the joke. The windows was what.. 6, maybe 7 days thanks to extensions? Think about, guilds had people there tracking for the first half, and then for the second half (late window and extensions) 3 guilds had typically 5-10 people each just sitting there, waiting for the fucker to pop.

I don't know of any casual guild in their right mind that would put up with something like that.

[Motec]

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

Using last VS as an example I agree, that was quite the joke. The windows was what.. 6, maybe 7 days thanks to extensions? Think about, guilds had people there tracking for the first half, and then for the second half (late window and extensions) 3 guilds had typically 5-10 people each just sitting there, waiting for the fucker to pop.

I don't know of any casual guild in their right mind that would put up with something like that.

I put in 200+ hours over the last two VS's easily, and about 5-6k plat in peridots alone.

Thats one person, out of maybe 10-15 from 3-4 guilds there at all hours. Two Venril spawns is responsible for 3-5000 man hours of staring at a fucking wall. Welcome to P1999.