Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments

[Legday]

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

From the perspective of a small guild person: what Zanderr said + the guild(s?) that set up the "entrance to tier" gatekeeper mobs were big enough to justify being in the Class C group, but didn't want to compete.

BDA and Taken.

BDA falls into the description you laid out.

Taken was a little more justified in opting for Class R over Class C. You have to remember that there were so few targets back then compared the post-Velious raid scene. TMO and IB were so hardcore that competing against them required and equal level of commitment. Taken were just a little too casual for that mess.

Also, BDA and Taken didn't just assume that going Class C would be too much, they also got to compete directly against TMO and IB whenever a mob was FFA, which was every 3rd spawn. If they really felt that would have been good for their guild is go class C I have to believe they would have. Targets like Trak, VS, and Sev were huge for TMO and IB still so those were often contested on FFA by BDA and/or Taken as well and I don't think they had a ton of success outside of the occasional snipe.

In the end most of the Class R guilds either merged with Class C guilds or left the server.

If I remember correct the Class R guilds were...

A-Team: Merged with IB pre-Velious to form Rampage.
Divinity: Slowly died. RIP.
BDA: Went to Phinny server.
Taken: Aligned with Forsaken+Asgard and later Rampage in the pre-sleeper waking days. Merged with the remnants Rampage shortly after.
Asgard: Aligned with Forsaken pre-sleeper waking and merged into current day Aftermath shortly after.
AG/Omni/Europa: Never merged but were the CSG alliance well into Velious.
Moonlight Crusaders: I think they folded pre-Velious?
Indignation: Merged into Asgard pre-Velious but some more hardcore members went to Forsaken.