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Patchday repops are the most fun raids I've had on this server by far. The variance system involves a good bit of luck at this point. None of the guilds can cover all targets at all time. Right now there are 6-8 (don't have the exact number in my mind atm) encounters in window. Noone wants to sit there and cover for 72-96h. So a) you have to decide which target is more valuable to your guild and prep accordingly and b) you have to track as much of the window as possible. It's obvious that shit slips through the cracks. Look at the last Draco pop for instance. IB couldn't track more than 3 or 4 targets simultaneously and I think we didn't even spot check Fear. We noticed a TMO spike in the early morning, figured it was most likely Draco, checked Fear.. confirmed. By the time we had a force about to zone in, it had already been pulled. Draw of the luck (not taunting TMO mobilization in case some overly sensitive ppl jump in).
@Stealing: I haven't read all of your posts in this thread yet, but I agree with the first couple of. Sometimes this kind of raiding is annoying, but at one point you can just say fuck it and skip certain raid targets. Also some agreements were very well overdue and I think the guilds involved and the server pop itself as benefited from it - pooping Trak ledge every single time was fucking retarded, as was the VP clusterfuck although I was mainly staring at my login screen during that.
I can't tell you how much *fun* playtime I've gained simply by not having to precamp in Seb every couple of days, it's ridiculous!
Note: I do hope we can renegotiate the agreement come Feb, cus I don't think anyone in IB wants to go back to that shit - though one very mad TMO member made it very clear that he "can't wait until the agreement is lifted" which in return made me facepalm pretty hard (again, no snap at TMO in general, I think the leadership as more brain matter than this guy).
@Variance: Cut it down by 25%.
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