[Sweetbaby Jesus]

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

Why are you assuming we'll be beaten 10 times out of 10? Even as it stands TMO doesn't have the time to track every single mob, do you think if they're all spawning within a 24 hour window that TMO will have an army of trackers spread across every zone, able to track all hours of the day? We got Maestro a couple weeks ago because we happened to be clearing hate while he popped. Sometimes we consciously choose to clear zones while a mob is in window to give us a mobilization advantage - that would be even easier to do if windows were shortened, and not even TMO is big enough to cover every single zone while this is happening. Moreover, the chance of two mobs spawning at the same time is much higher when the windows are shorter. Plus, what if TMO is in a battle with BDA on poop mountain while everything else is in window? Do you really think they have the advantage then? I say this as someone who actually tracks for raid mobs under the current system, it would be much easier for my guild if the windows were shorter, because more people would be willing to track. Your solution is basically to give us no option at all (having to track for up to 96 hours) versus giving us an option which you believe will lead to us losing every time. I'm saying we won't lose every time. And even if we did, I still would agree with shortening the windows because no person, whether they're in TMO or not, should have to track mobs for as long as they're expected to currently.

I'm also not persuaded by this argument that we shouldn't accomodate european players. Frankly, I think that's horseshit, they have every right to enjoy raiding on this server too, and so there should be some kind of variance, just not the insanely long one we have now.

I'm assuming we will be beaten 10 out of 10 times because it's pretty much fact. Say variance window did change and somehow smaller guilds did start beating TMO to targets(which we won't) the very next thing that would happen is TMO members that are taking breaks or whatever would start playing again for the "competition" then their numbers would grow even more. And they would have no problem keeping everything tracked, As if they even have that problem already. TMO keeps eye on everything around the clock with a 96 hour variance. What makes you think they won't be able to do the same with shorter variance?