I have been involved in numerous raids in VP on live yes. Next question?

I think he was being ironic because of Unbrella's remarks.

Yes, there will always be a group of players who win the race. That's the nature of contested content. But the situation you describe is still orders of magnitude more classic than the current environment.

Really, the server needs to wipe every 2 years. This one, or new one for that purpose, I don't care. The inflation oriented nature of these games makes wiping the server the only want you can create any semblance of balance and consistency.

Welcome to PoopsockQuest, where it's totally fine to wait around for hours for a dragon to spawn, but we'll be damned if we're going to take 30 minutes to clear some trash before zerging down that dragon. And we're all super skilled, but we're going to use 50 people to kill mobs that don't really need more than 20.

300 raids in VP on P99 between the hours of 4am and 8am is the qualifier for having a valid opinion on this topic.

It wouldn't be more classic for the casual player who logs on once in a while to group with some friends which makes up a larger player base than the endgame raiders. The majority of players don't even have a level 60 character yet.

Ftfy, casual scum!

Not entirely. Increasing the penalties will incentivize further abuse of the process unless it is severely refined.

Class C currently has an ultimatum to "work out minor problems." A good portion of these are indeed worked out internally, but only because the "reward" for petitioning is minor in comparison. As the damage to your competition increases, the incentive to petition, no matter the cause, rises as well.

Currently, a petition risks annoying the GMs. It's often not worth it for minor offenses because it'll maybe result in a mob or two. However, when your competition would be banned for several weeks at a time, it becomes extremely worth it to manufacture and fabricate offenses. It's been done before, and it will most certainly be incentivized under the proposed system unless there are serious changes in the petition process.

Really? I think it would make the most difference for exactly those players. I remember digging dangerously deep into Blackburrow in the early teens with two friends so I could get a Runed Totem staff. You can't really experience that here, or any proxy of it. There's too much cheap gear that's too good. The server is too inflated. It would actually make less of a difference to the raiders, for exactly the reasons to describe.

If I was a level 40 who's only been playing once a week for the last 2 years I'd probably be pretty pissed to log on one day to find my chars missing and wouldn't come back. Only a minority of players log on to these boards with any kind of regularity too. A wipe would completely blindside the majority of the player base.