[YendorLootmonkey]

Ask the other guilds, and ask the GMs who have had to deal with zero raid drama... the TMO raid suspension was a glimpse of how the raiding scene on this server *could* be. Every other guild is willing to share and work together and rotate even high priority targets like Trak and VS. We're /randoming on stuff in VP between three different guilds, for crying out loud. Could that even happen if TMO were not suspended? No. Because they have deemed the rest of us have not "earned" those pixels or the right to those encounters. Somewhere along the way, they crowned themselves gatekeepers of all the loot and have taken it upon themselves to decide who is worthy and who is just "getting handouts."

The ONLY guild on the server who thinks "competition" at the level they pursue it is "fun" is TMO. The rest of us don't find that fun at all. Yet, because one guild isn't willing to work out a rotation, they inflict their will against all other guilds. What gives them that right? Because they have the most players willing to "do what it takes" and risk getting raid banned time and time again in order to get pixels?

Again, nilbog is right... we all have the power to change it. If TMO wants to treat the rest of us this way, then boycott them. Guildleaders... mandate from your guilds a strict refusal to group with them, and their alts, and all the people they have tucked away in Enraptured all sneaky-like. Stop talking to them. Stop buffing them. Stop buying and selling from/to them. Just stop interacting with them all together. When their membership no longer finds it fun to log in for their trinkets and then log out because no one else on the server wants to have anything to do with them, maybe they'll put the appropriate pressure on their leadership, if they're not already doing so in response to the poor-decision making that led to their two week raid-suspension to begin with.

Oh, and if you do the FTE shout thing, re-define FTE as "the first guild to do X amount of damage to the mob" and check for that. That'll make kiting mobs a thing of the past as well as GM intervention after the fact to determine who had FTE and potentially having to re-distribute loot. Then you can't just put AFK people there to get on the hate list first... you actually have to engage the mob with a KS group and with enough of a raid force where you plan to win. The FTE shout will let the opposing guild know they can pull their forces out and let the FTE guild try their luck with whatever they engaged with.