VS Remains & 'summoned' Fay

[Kope]

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

Guilds are not monolithic entities... they are made up of people. The most successful guilds are generally the largest guilds. The largest guilds have the most people in it, by definition. And as we all know, when more people experience the content, more people can report problems with it.

This logic has flaws in it. Peace Pipe wasn't one of the strongest raiding guilds when they were in their prime.

It's not just pure numbers that are needed, there's a quality of player that is needed.

[Goraith]

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

Can't say that I'm 100% for a rotation, but, especially for certain encounters, it alleviates a lot of crud (IE: ragefire). As for your specific concerns on Trak's teeth and VP? I like the rotation I linked. And besides saving TMO and VD poop-time from sitting on The Mountain(TM), it would slowly allow other guilds to prepare for VP by (albeit slowly) acquiring their own teeth. This is a 10+ year old server, the joys for me are in seeing the things I never saw before and killing things I never saw before. If I wanted "bleeding edge", I'd check out one of the multitude of "bleeding edge" games, where the boss fights have 10,000 different phases and abilities, and I have a rotation to play to perfection while dodging "the bad". Its hard to argue for "bleeding edge" on an 11 year old server.



That's why I play an 11 year old game. I'm not in the 5% that gets paid for world firsts, I'm with the other 1% that thinks MMOs didn't get better with time. We did force a rotation, and TMO almost backed out of it (See: Ragefire). TMO has flatly refused any other rotations, therefore VD is doing exactly as you state we should. However, the majority of this server is here to, like I stated earlier, see Norrath again, including possibly seeing new places and encounters they hadn't.

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[Frieza_Prexus]

Point of information: I am not an officer or part of TMO's leadership. I suppose I could be considered to have senior status or something, as a member, but I am not actively involved with leadership decisions.

So, take the quoted text from me above with that in mind.

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

Point of information: I am not an officer or part of TMO's leadership. I suppose I could be considered to have senior status or something, as a member, but I am not actively involved with leadership decisions.

So, take the quoted text from me above with that in mind.

Yes, but you are very well-spoken, rational, and even-tempered, which is always a good thing when speaking on behalf of one's guild [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] /salute

[Ruenaros]

WTB maintenance day repops and the death of variance. It can't be said enough!

[Splorf22]

Most of VD is just boggled when TMO like Fazlazen or Jeremy or Stealin talk about *enjoying* competing for raid mobs. Personally I like the idea of competing for raid mobs; I just don't like it when that competition involves poopsocking and being on call 24/7.

Currently, if you want to be a player on the P1999 raid scene you have to be able/willing to log in for raids after receiving a text message about 50% of the time. I find this kind of funny because I have a cousin who is a doctor, and there is currently a kind of revolution in doctors because they refuse to be "on call" and get jerked out of bed at odd hours. In fact I was just chatting with my family recently about a friend of a friend who broke his elbow rather badly and had to be on morphine for 3 days until a doctor finished his vacation or whatnot. Conclusion: if the P1999 raiding guilds went to medical school, they could make a fortune by doing surgery at odd hours.

Anyway, the result of this is that all the raiding guilds are constantly recruiting because the level of commitment required is so high that people burn out fast. TMO for example is much smaller than they were 9 months ago after their merger with DA.

I posted about 20 threads asking for linked/maintenance type reboots which are both classic and would help the problem immensely, and got 0 response from the staff. In the mean time I'm not interested in playing the raiding game because I'd rather be out playing basketball or getting some real work done. And wasting time posting on the forums from time to time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Heebo]

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

WTB maintenance day repops and the death of variance. It can't be said enough!

[Lazortag]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I posted about 20 threads asking for linked/maintenance type reboots which are both classic and would help the problem immensely, and got 0 response from the staff. In the mean time I'm not interested in playing the raiding game because I'd rather be out playing basketball or getting some real work done. And wasting time posting on the forums from time to time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Actually Nilbog did respond favorably to one of the previous threads (it was titled "three step plan to fixing p99 endgame" or something).

[Frieza_Prexus]

Most of VD is just boggled when TMO like Fazlazen or Jeremy or Stealin talk about *enjoying* competing for raid mobs.

Racing for a mob can be extremely fun. Socking, is obviously not. Trak can be fun especially if he's an early pop.

Personally, I love the chaos that comes with a random early mob pop as we all scramble to port out, guilds running in massive hordes, changing cloths and putting on resist gear while running through a zone at top speed (Personally, I pretend I'm Superman when I change into my crime fighting resist gear).

Simulated patch days give us that in spades. I love the triage and the calculus of which mob we should go after when multiples are up. Right now, the best fights are CT and Innoruuk because of all the chaos when they pop. As an enchanter, this is about the only stimulation and opportunity I get to actually be skillful.

[Kassel]

Racing from mob to mob on a server repop is damn fun.

Racing to my computer from my bed at 5am to log in for a 30 second fight is not as much fun.