Can someone please explain raid drama...?

[Derubael]

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

I have got to stop coming here & reading these threads. I just started a month ago here & this sounds so depressing it makes me wonder why I'm playing at all if the server is this messed up.

I am going to be keep playing but this does sound awfully discouraging to me as a newish player here.

Don't get discouraged. There will always be a vocal minority who is unhappy no matter what - we could open a new server and tailor it just for them and they'd still find something to complain about.

That being said, the raid scene was completely dominated by 1 or 2 guilds for a very long time. If you weren't in those guilds you didn't see much content. Now that we have a tiered raid system, everyone sees content. Granted, in Class R you get far less mobs than the competitive class, but you also get to relax and kill your targets at your leisure.

Another important thing to remember is that Velious will have so many raid targets that everyone will get a chance to see content. The most "exclusive" content is still likely going to be killed by the "hardcore raiders", but that's the way it was for most servers on live as well. I don't think anyone rotated sleepers tomb, lol [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's so many targets in Velious that if you aren't getting your fill, you're either lazy or greedy. Temple of Veeshan all by itself has more raid targets than all of classic and Kunark combined. So that will alleviate a lot of the "raid scene woes" we're experiencing now.

It's definitely better than it used to be, though - everyone can see Kunark and Old World content without having to join an FFA situation. I think that's something we've wanted for a long time, but were hoping it'd come along naturally without our intervention. Also,

Originally Posted by Thulack

Dev's, GM's here grew up on non rotation servers so they feel a rotation is a pussy way to go about playing EQ.

I think this gives a wildly inaccurate impression of the staff here. Sirken feels somewhat like this, but I know that for me personally I would rather be a "class r" guy than a "class c" guy. I just recognize that there's a need for both schools of thought, and that the people in "class c" are going to get more targets because they put more time/effort in. As long as everyone gets an opportunity to participate in content I'm happy, and that's what we have now.

tl;dr raid scene is doing fine, velious will make it much better