Forgot about variance?

[heartbrand]

Velious will not give this server 300+ people. If anything, it could potentially create a PVP landscape so one sided that people will flee to blue for nostalgia purposes. And let's be realistic about the so-called "there's so much to do in Velious," argument.

Yelinak: Probably never being killed on Red
Velektor: Incredibly underwhelming gear
Dain: Really only worth the hammer and the head turn in, but can be infinitely spawned via shawl and just done once a month 20x in a row like spiroc lord.
Tormax: Basically killing him for the head, the other gear is even more underwhelming for the first 6-8 months of Velious per Ele post.
Tunare: Won't be itemized for at LEAST six months into Velious, and due to PVP, may never die on this server.
Vindi: Repops pretty fast, not really a true "raid" mob
Statue: Worth killing
AoW:Will likely never die on Red99 due to the amount of clerics needed combined with how easy it would be to grief a AoW raid with Kael faction chars.
Outdoor Velious Dragons: Basically all drop complete shit, bio orb is cool but will probably have a 99% resist rate

So that basically leaves you with:

NTOV / Sleepers / Dozekar. The 3 Warders in ST can be cleared with 2 groups? Easily doable in 45 minutes. NTOV once you get rolling can be an easy one day clear. So effectively, you could hold down everything worth killing in Velious in one single raid day without variance.

Thanks for playing.