My classic experience doesn't align with this at all. The reason guilds rarely got involved was because hate was a farm fest. At 46 new alts would get ported up and sit on the safewall which was easy to get to because 10 people would be up there soloing. When a mini popped on the first floor these unaffiliated soloers would kill it and see who needed what. Druids, mages, shamans, enchanters - leveling toons, would be there soloing about 300-500 range away from safe wall. Trash was down, people would be waiting for repops. I never saw anyone approach the second floor without a guild there, but first floor was safe and minis that spawned there were killed very quickly without the need for a tracker. No one even ported up with a wc cap or portion, porters were always there. As for people soloing on P99, it's a forever box with nth degree a-type personalities investing years of their spare time to do things like solo things that would be unthinkable classically. Nature of the beast.
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