Rooted Dragons and FTE foot races. Failed experiments

[YendorLootmonkey]

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. So they could lord over the small guilds.

If by "didn't want to compete", you mean didn't want their members to be tethered to a batphone all waking hours of the day and participate in petitionquest bullshit with a legion of elf lawyers on retainer, then yes... BDA did not want to "compete." Nor did our Vesica Dei before them. After all, that level of "competition" got our guildleader's RL photo posted all over RNF here by an embedded mole and ran her off, destroying our guild on P99. Just what the "competition" wanted. Healthy "competition", huh? So no, "competing" in Class C had nothing to do with being able to throw down with IB and TMO... it had more to do about avoiding that level of sociopathic neckbeard nonsense.

The gatekeeping wouldn't have been needed if the smaller guilds hadn't insisted on having their own individual slots in the rotation despite not being able to field the force necessary to kill the mob.

All it would have took was Guild A (i'm not going to call out guilds) saying "Okay, lets be fair... we have to call in help for our targets, so we should have a combined slot with that guild, or we shouldn't be in the rotation for this tier of raid targets."

Or are you asserting that a guild shouldn't have to be able to kill the raid targets on their own to be in the rotation for that raid target? Please don't tell me that's the sword you're planning to fall on...