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Originally Posted by Rhambuk
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casuals get a guaranteed 2 full respawns a month, and vox nag the rest of the month.
Though hardcores may be getting more targets they certainly aren't going to be making as many sales on epic mq's.
now that casual guilds know they have a reasonable shot at the raid mob I think they would be willing to try and get the drop legitimately instead of spending 250k plat.
also the casual guilds can sell epic mq rots to non raiders and buy epic bits from tmo to gear up themselves, nice trade off there.
its hardly anything to complain about as most casuals don't want to raid every single day or even every single week for that matter.
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I did not say it is upsetting, nor am I complaining. I am saying that this is not the solution the server needed to create a lasting reduction to conflict between guilds. The conflict is going to continue, but now when a guild like TMO, or another down the line, is able to monopolize all content, guilds cannot even attempt to do a tactic as shitty as poopsocking to level the playing field. Sure, no one has fun doing it, but that's the type of tactic a more casual guild would have to employ with those power houses. This is like Vietnam giving up their right to use guerrilla warfare, in exchange for some bombers, while the United States still has their entire military, plus an equal number of bombers. Casual guilds are going to have a much harder time on the level playing field than by using guerrilla tactics to get their kills. The bad strategies that casuals had to employ to attempt to compete with the power house guilds are gone, and in exchange, they now get 6 hours of casual play a month, and the rest of the time, the top guilds get proportionally more than they had before. Now, the casual guilds must manage to play the hardcore game if they want to play the game for anything more than 6 hours a month for the 2 repops.
Therefore, no compromise was made other than the surrendering if monopolizing epic content, but that wasn't even completely true, as guilds such as Taken have shown the ability to get in and take out VS, and BDA took out CT a month or so back. So, they went from having most of the epic mobs, to still having most of the epic mobs, with a few of them going to the casuals. This can only be seen as a compromise insofar as you see the hardcores as having a right to exclusively monopolize the content.
That does not fit the criteria for a compromise. Again, this is a step forward, it is more fair than it was, but that only exists because of extra mobs being generated, not from sacrifice of the hardcore side. Therefore, it does not deserve being called a compromise, as it wasn't by definition.