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Originally Posted by Werlop [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well, there are really only a few guilds that even attempt to do bosses or anything past island 4 in Sky right now. TR, TMO, VD, Taken, Bregan... guilds like Reclamation certainly raid, but not to the same degree. If you want to do serious raid content, then as it stands, yes, you must join one of those guilds. Since TR, TMO and recently VD have collectively killed the vast majority for the last month, if you want to kill dragons and gods, you have to be in one of those 3 guilds. Obviously, there are only going to be a few successful raiding guilds at one time, and these guilds are going to be getting the bulk of the attention simply because success = drama.
The rest of P99's guilds are not 'feeder' guilds; it just happens that players must move from a smaller, casual guild to a larger guild if they want to do the bigger raids. These few raiding guilds are a minority on the server overall; there are plenty of people who have more fun leveling that new alt up than in gearing up a main in raid armor, and they and the guilds they make are the majority of the server in terms of population, if not in terms of drama per capita.

When 7th Hammer and Lanys merged I had quite an eye opener. On Lanys there was almost always one major guild and one lesser competitor. After the merger there were like 7 guilds that were in the hardcore raiding scene. Guilds competed for players, not the other way around.