Stop the Socking

[maestrom]

That's what I imagined. Intense.

[Clark]

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[Erati]

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Good post. The problem is what someone mentioned earlier in this thread or another one recently. If you guys can spend time on your 6th or 7th alt same as us, or hardcore farm which you can't say Taken doesn't do, then you surely have time to guild PL some mages. Excuses man, but not a bad post.

For God sake, I mean BDA has been on the server longer than most guilds. They should have guild mages by now as well.

As far as Trakanon goes I preferred logging in at Ledge and not making it a COTH war. Was much more enjoyable.

Taken has guild mages, we did exactly as you suggested when the rules changed.

The problem is, this creates a barrier of entry for all the other guilds, namely, it requires THEM to all plvl a mage which is kinda dumb to have these imaginary barriers which are player created.

Many of your TMO bros are actually frowning at us when it is suggested that other guilds follow suit and Plvl a mage to join in the 'level playing field'.

Hence why racing is what being discussed, so you are not 'required' to plvl a mage to simply join in the FFA raid scene. ( granted racing has its own issues, but it does not require extra effort in terms of lvling and creating a 'raid mule character')

[Daldaen]

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

Good post. The problem is what someone mentioned earlier in this thread or another one recently. If you guys can spend time on your 6th or 7th alt same as us, or hardcore farm which you can't say Taken doesn't do, then you surely have time to guild PL some mages. Excuses man, but not a bad post.

For God sake, I mean BDA has been on the server longer than most guilds. They should have guild mages by now as well.

As far as Trakanon goes I preferred logging in at Ledge and not making it a COTH war. Was much more enjoyable.

Refer to RNF the last guild mage we PL'd :P.

We have 2 guild mages. One of whom is level 55.

We would need:

2 new guild Mages, 1 Mage PLed from mid 40s-55.

Then we would need a solid 6-12 people willing to sock the entire 18 hour window and another 15-30 camped out to respond to a batphone.

Which reverts to the whole point, and quite literally, the name of the post... Stop the Socking.

To compete on such an FFA mob, having Mages is fine and I grant you that. But having to sock with 1-2 full groups sitting at the entrance the entire window... No. Stop. Don't do that. That's bad and you promised the GMs you wouldn't.

Logging in at the ledge is sort of meh. That just becomes a sock at the character select screen. Somewhat of an improvement. Really should just see how no Mage CotH goes for a week or two on Traks... Would be quite entertaining. Most of the trains would occur in the basement where exp groups rarely set up so it shouldn't be too bad for the regular Seb exper.

[Man0warr]

BDA has mage mules for the normal stuff, but no one is going to force someone in our guild to coth duck for hours.

[Clark]

Ya. I mean personally I feel like there should be zero rules/all ffa with big variance. Then if you really want one target bad you can go sock it. The only thing that really ever got a little out of control was VS.

Almost feel worse for the red players having to put up with bull shit PNP. Was glad to see Sirkens recent post for them about cutting back on PNP, and if you afk you get what comes to you.

Rule99 needs to become P99 again.

[Erati]

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

Then if you really want one target bad you can go sock it. .

this surprises no one coming from you

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[Daldaen]

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

Ya. I mean personally I feel like there should be zero rules/all ffa with big variance. Then if you really want one target bad you can go sock it. The only thing that really ever got a little out of control was VS.

Almost feel worse for the red players having to put up with bull shit PNP. Was glad to see Sirkens recent post for them about cutting back on PNP, and if you afk you get what comes to you.

Rule99 needs to become P99 again.

Of course you would feel this way. You are one of the extremely small fraction on this server that can attend and sock at any hour for any duration.

Complete hands off FFA no rules is what got us to where we are. Which is a vast improvement but it can be improved further. And it needs to be as our socking is starting to creep back towards what it was. That needs to be removed.

[Clark]

Kind of confused why Taken never sits back and analyzes their own actions. You guys are one of the reasons things get taken to extreme limits as far as socking goes. Pretty sure that Inny being socked months straight by you guys was a big reason for rule changes. Preposterous.

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[Erati]

Soon as the staff found out Taken got 6 Inny's in a row (with zero mage staffs ) the Rogean-signal was sent so rules could be changed to never let that happen again.

and Norrath is a better place because of it. Thanks Taken!