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Originally Posted by Troxx
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Outsider's perspective:
I always chortle when people look down their noses at a guild for insufficient relative skill in pooping in socks.
Is BDA incapable of killing mobs or are they just less capable of fielding a raid-capable force 24/7 or hell even 12/7?
Incapable of killing mobs or just less capable of killing mobs with a bunch of neckbeards stalking and skulking vulture style for the slightest of slip-ups?
To be honest, a guild that gets fewer kills due to not being competitive for >80% of the available HOURS p99 is online doesn't imply failure ... it actually implies a greater degree of success in RL.
So yeah, my outsider's perspective is that the most competitive raiding forces on this server are only the most successful for one of two (or both) reasons:
1) higher number of available total players
2) willingness of said raiding playerbase to fuck themselves in RL for pixels on an old emulated game.
Raiding on p99 has nothing to do with skill, only willingness to sacrifice your fucking life for a video game.
For the record: I'm not in BDA, the FAT alliance, Rampage, or any raid-competitive guild. There was a time when I raided 20-40 hours a week on live and was cutting edge ... but then I grew the fuck up.
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I'll respond to this.
I consider myself successful in RL. I work sometimes more than 8 hours a day, M through F. My family lives comfortably, meaning we have AC/Heat on when we want it, we use ALL the hot water in our Hot Water Heater when we want and eat delicious steaks when we want, including Crab, Salmon and more.
I absolutely love P99 and what the staff has done to keep this nostalgia around. I don't have much time to play but raiding is fun and generally playing the game is fun.
Of recent there has been some pretty hefty competition on targets BDA wouldn't have an issue taking down. Without getting in to the bitching and complaining (rules and other) it's been a bummer to miss some of the targets but eventually we will get them and we will do it the BDA way. Take it how you will, but ya, most of BDA are working just like I do and most have busy RL stuff in general.
Thanks for your insight.