Who is the current top casual guild?

[Gozuk]

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

you think we were born with talent?

Rofl. This is awesome.

[Zekayy]

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

Stop trying to pretend that A/A doesn't require raid attendance while you're online.

Also arent you on our test server? Lol why you hating on us bro?

[Lhancelot]

Maybe AM/AW have evolved since Paulg was familiar with the inner workings of them.

I can say one thing for sure, in the past 6 months both of these guilds seem to have much more social players in them now than I noticed in the past.

Maybe I just never happened to run into many of their members and I am wrong but it sure seems to me that AM/AW have a much more friendly and social group of players now.

I'd say this easily could reflect how the guilds are now running too, perhaps they are a bit more relaxed and not as high strung as they used to be.

[Speedi]

The way I see it is any guild that doesn't have mandatory raid attendance is casual. I believe Awakened has this, and I think Aftermath does as well. You basically raid when you want to raid and both are respectable guilds. Also 10-15% RA is casual as hell. Back when I used to raid it was 30% or maybe it was 35% over a 90 day period to be called "active" which let you go in on loot. I think a lot of these "so-called" casual guilds have mandatory raid attendance. That means if you are online when your guild is raiding no matter what you are doing you have to stop and go help your guild. I have been there done that, and tbh it sucks. I mean who really likes to leave a group of good friends because a raid target spawns, I know I don't! I would rather keep hanging out with my close friends, I am sure most others would as well. With that said, don't listen to the haters on the boards. Just go to the guild's website and read their charter/info section to see if that particular guild is right for you. Best of luck and welcome to p99! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[paulgiamatti]

Again, A/A requires you to raid if you're online during your recruitment period. Non-casual play is part of the indoctrination process for both of these guilds. This isn't true for any other guilds on the server.

[Breaken]

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

Again, A/A requires you to raid if you're online during your recruitment period. Non-casual play is part of the indoctrination process for both of these guilds. This isn't true for any other guilds on the server.

Raiding when you are online does not mean non-casual. If you only play once a week, and you raid that one time a week, how is this non-casual? Just stop.

Also, you keep saying you have to raid when you are online, but raid mobs are not up 24/7. We don't require you to track all day long, so even on the day that all 7 day mobs are in window, you are free to play EQ however you want. When a raid mob spawns, sure, head on over!

You sound upset, and it looks bad.

Edit:
As to Awakened's loot policy, we have a 15% Raid Attendance requirement to be considered "Active". We have multiple tiers for loot. Items either fall in as Main First, Main/Cert (basically your second best toon) First, Alts, or "Rot Tier". Being Active means you can bid in these tiers properly. Being Inactive, you can still bid and win items, you just bid down a tier. So, you will not be bidding on Main First items, but you can still bid on Main/Cert items for your Main. Some items in this tier include Fist of Lightning, Cloak of the Sky, Boots of the Destroyer, Trident of the Deep Sea, Wurmscale Fistwraps, Cloak of Thorns, Cloak of the Falling Stars, White Dragon Scale Sash, and many other very nice items.

[paulgiamatti]

You can dress up mandatory raiding any way you like, but at the end of the day it's still mandatory raiding, and it certainly isn't casual.

Don't take the bait if you value your autonomy.

[Kesselring]

If you have a batphone, optional or not, I'd say that qualifies as not being casual... regardless of your targets. If you're batphoning in emperor crush and raiding it with 30 people logging in their level 10 chars, youre technically hardcore at that point. If you have cothbots set up for a lot of targets in EQ, (letting a cothbot in HoT slide because it's just HoT) I'd say you're not casual. Casual means no influence is bothering you to log in rather than your casual playing time that you normally log in. Scheduled raid times is casual, scheduled poopsocking is not.

[Ezrick]

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

As to Awakened's loot policy, we have a 15% Raid Attendance requirement to be considered "Active". We have multiple tiers for loot. Items either fall in as Main First, Main/Cert (basically your second best toon) First, Alts, or "Rot Tier". Being Active means you can bid in these tiers properly. Being Inactive, you can still bid and win items, you just bid down a tier. So, you will not be bidding on Main First items, but you can still bid on Main/Cert items for your Main. Some items in this tier include Fist of Lightning, Cloak of the Sky, Boots of the Destroyer, Trident of the Deep Sea, Wurmscale Fistwraps, Cloak of Thorns, Cloak of the Falling Stars, White Dragon Scale Sash, and many other very nice items.

If you have a loot policy this complicated you don't have a casual raiding guild.