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Originally Posted by saujee
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What I am trying to say is, is there another way other than racing.
The top guilds are great. I dont want take anything from them but unfortunately it is like racing vs guilds on steroids atm and the top guilds will always have that advantage and stay on the top leaving lower guilds unable to progress unless the top guild gets banned or they deguild and join them.
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What you need to understand is that any time a rule set has changed, the hardcore guilds are naturally quicker to learn and eventually perfect what is needed to secure and kill the mobs.
When Velious dropped the C/R/FFA cycles ended and hardcore guilds were free to go to town on whatever. The smaller guilds didn't bother with the end game stuff because it was an absurd amount of work to go in to the deep end already full of sharks and most likely come away empty handed.
Then the tactics escalated and smaller rules were implemented. Bigger guilds figured out how to snap pull dragons accross zones and things like that, and smaller guilds fell further behind while also shaking their heads at the whole thing.
Finally after the smaller guilds had had enough of the nonsense, Sirken stepped in and changed the rules to level the playing field dramatically, by putting in the racing rules and implementing a 1 hour lockout and made it so guilds could only be engaged in one target at a time. Before this if Aftermath or Awakened was getting ready to pull Koi and Tormax popped, a single guild could split forces and kill both at the same time. This was actually pretty common.
But even with the rules having just changed to allow everybody to figure out the racing mechanics at the same time, the hardcore guilds neckbearded harder and the smaller guilds were again deterred by the learning curve relative to the amount of work required, and the hardcore guilds have stayed mostly uncontested from any smaller guilds on race mobs.
There is a theme here. Unless there is an enforced rotation, the hardcore guilds will likely figure out the mechanics and kill just about everything and the smaller guilds will remain annoyed by the neck bearding.
This usually leads to two different types of posts in pleas towards the server staff and hardcore players...
1. Enforce a rotation, change variance, repop bonanza, etc.
2. Beg the hardcore guilds to care less. (Not going to happen)