[skarlorn]

Hey leadership of Raid Guilds,

I have a question... do you remember that awesome feeling the first time you killed a dragon on p99? I sure do. My first dragon encounter was Lord Nagafen, and I failed utterly as a tank. But, my heart beat in my mouth and I made my girlfriend call me a big-footed dragonfighting halfling that night.

Now, what if I told you there are hundreds of players who have yet to experience that exhilaration... the ability to get a nostalgia boner as they rush to their deaths against Naggy or Vox? And that YOU could be directly responsible for letting a bunch of real life humans re-experience that dream?

It's the Current Year, and Naggy and Vox are still permafarmed.

The server has been around for a long, long time. You've gotten all the pixels many times over. And soon, it will be the Year After the Current Year.

It's time to start allowing for the casual peasantry to do open Naggy/Vox raids.

Before you re-act with vitriol and rage and shitpost at me with the bitter taste of adrenaline riding high in your mouth, claiming "FTE IS CLASSIC" "GET GOOD" or even "JOIN US," let's all take a breath. Consider this:

Open Raids Are Classic.

Naggy/Vox Pixels are good, but not great

You will feel Good when you see dozens of people rejoicing because you helped them experience joy

It's the Current Year

As we can see, guilds like Veloci Shift and even Paradox are quite capable of leading Open Raids that benefit the public just as much as themselves.

All I'm asking is that you really consider this possibility: Let one Naggy or Vox per month stay untouched. You can create an agreement in the Raid Discussion forum or something.

All it costs is one Naggy, or one Vox per month. That's what? One in four you don't immediately kill? Let it stay up for a day so that the casual hordes can assemble after work hours and kill it. You can even participate and help! You can even roll on the loot!

I've had the privilege of raiding some with Aftermath. I know some of the leadership in Awakened. You're good people who are great at managing elf-simulating nerds; you already enjoy serving and feel good when others get pixels... so it's time to extend that embrace to the server at large.

Gone are the days of the crazed fanaticism. TMO perished; IB RMT'd, BDA is dead and Chest is gone. I think that if you read this and really consider, you will agree that it's time to start allowing a little leeway for open raids to experience the lowest end dragons that Norrath has to offer.

We can actually create a server that we're proud of, where top-guilds eat all the VP and NTOV loot but allow for a smidgeon of exciting, dragon-fighting experience to the lesser denizens of Norrath. You don't have to adhere to the rules of the past.

Thank you for reading, I hope you (the leadership) will respond here so that we can begin creating an accord which will benefit the World at large.

Signed,
Filbus Furyfoot

Ex-Dragon Raider
Protector of Rivervale
Leader of the Rivervale Vanguard
Lord of the Misty Thicket
Slayer of Llandris