After all this time in Kunark with Variance, TMO wants to remove it because it'll make NToV more annoying?
I'm all for removing Variance and adding Server Resets at reasonable intervals.
Variance makes NToV a hassle instead of the raid dungeon crawl it was meant to be. I don't believe you can invis through it the same way that can be done in VP.
Due to the increased mob DPS and HP in Velious, Variance will make it so that batphoned raids have to be larger than the already ridiculous size of P99 Kunark raids. Only because you are the guild that currently kills most dragons is this question directed at TMO, at what point do you give up batphoning the instant something spawns and go to planned raids? Right now it appears TMO will batphone at any time and muster the ~35 it needs to kill any 32kHP target. Will you still batphone at 3AM to get Ikatiar (136500HP) or Aaryonar (221500HP)?
It appears TMO will do what it must to maintain dominance given the environment it lives within (simple predator/prey relationship), so either TMO must balloon in size to respond to Velious' increased difficulty, or TMO is happy with its size and would like Velious to shrink to its size.
The majority of the rest of the server has decided to say, "Screw it, we'll play at our pace regardless of the environment," and we get the amount of kills we do. Personally, the server as a whole would be better served by "shrinking," since the majority population does not want to expand to the size necessary to be abundantly fruitful in killing mobs. And it appears TMO is here with the same request to "shrink" the environment.
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Originally Posted by Joroz
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24/7 tracking is brutal for something you have no clue when it will spawn. Random method would favor the pop in tracker or xp groups in the area discovering something is up potentially making raid mobs more accessible to guilds in the right spot at the right time. It would make it extremely hard for guilds to camp out at the next biggest target "due up" when they have no clue which it will be. The so called competition would shift from logging in hoping for FTE to a race on who could mobilize fastest and engage.
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Random method would also cater to the force with the most alts camped out at all the different locations. I'd rather give advantage to the lone 60 guy (note I'm included in this group) than the person who has leveled/purchased 4+ toons and spread them across Norrath. But I can also see how the person who invested the immense time/money into those 4+ toons thinks I'm a charity case because I haven't put in similar effort. That next raid kill means a lot more to the lone 60 than it likely does to the multi-character player, but then I'm more a fan of the journey than the destination.