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Originally Posted by Skope
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Nedala, variance or not, whoever engages first gets the target. Welcome to FTE (first to engage). This doesn't change if there's a smaller or larger window, or a window at all. A guild coming 5 minutes before the spawn has just as much right as one who's been there for 3 days. Variance is independent of FTE. Variance, originally, was introduced to discourage poopsocking and it flat out didn't work. It did for a couple of weeks, but then DA quickly got to poopsocking and IB used the excuse of "if they're doing it, we have to do it too." In fact, it probably goes back even father, but if you want a P99 history lesson this isn't the forum for it.
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But there you are wrong again, variance wasnt put in to stop the poopsocking it was put in to stop GM intervention, and it worked.
And then FTE was put in to stop poopsocking, and it worked.
You are aware nobody is poopsocking currently to get bosses, are you?
But here you are claiming it didn't work.
And to FTE: this is exactly the problem, No variance + FTE = 5 guilds sitting on his spawn, yes it doesnt matter who was there first and thats exactly the problem everyone will be there, and everybody will try to be the first guild to engage.
Just an example:
Guild A, B, C and D know trakanon is going to spawn. Guild A is there since a day, guild B since a couple hours guild C andD just arrived.
So, trak spawns, all guilds beat on him, he goes down in a few seconds, nobody has a clue who engaged first, a GM comes looks into the logs and awards the loot. This is how every important spawn would work, especially trak. And you seriously prefere this scenario over what we have now?
Is that what you call raiding? The guilds wouldn't even need to be capable of killing trak, since 4 other guilds are helping anyway.