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Old 03-07-2019, 06:24 PM
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P99ers do a lot of things well. Handling surprise adds / splitting up focus is not one of them. Mostly because the classes that do that the best (SK/Paladins) are generally trashed and considered useless, and because pulls are considered failures if a dragons doesn't appear at the zone line solo.
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Old 03-07-2019, 06:45 PM
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because this way only a handful of people sit there the whole time. if it were 4hours, the whole server would neglect their families and pack raid zones for the window.
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Old 03-07-2019, 06:52 PM
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Just be thankful these windows no longer extend like they used to.
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Old 03-07-2019, 06:55 PM
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because this way only a handful of people sit there the whole time. if it were 4hours, the whole server would neglect their families and pack raid zones for the window.
Its hundreds though
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I tried my hand at rotating with the casuals.
It was at this point I decided to no longer be kind to the casuals as they have extreme short term memory. They did this to themselves, unfortunately.

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No one in A/A cares that you aren't getting pixels. In fact after the last suspension wave the attitude is to stop letting the casual guilds get anything even remotely of value.
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Old 03-07-2019, 07:26 PM
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it's intended to deter players from socking
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Old 03-07-2019, 07:28 PM
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It's shorter in some cases that variance was is classic. Stop complaining.
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Old 03-07-2019, 07:29 PM
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it's intended to deter players from socking
Lol didnt work it just keeps the casuals/semi casuals out
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I tried my hand at rotating with the casuals.
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No one in A/A cares that you aren't getting pixels. In fact after the last suspension wave the attitude is to stop letting the casual guilds get anything even remotely of value.
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Old 03-07-2019, 07:34 PM
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It's shorter in some cases that variance was is classic. Stop complaining.
Tell me more.
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P99ers do a lot of things well. Handling surprise adds / splitting up focus is not one of them. Mostly because the classes that do that the best (SK/Paladins) are generally trashed and considered useless, and because pulls are considered failures if a dragons doesn't appear at the zone line solo.
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Old 03-07-2019, 07:41 PM
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let's make all windows 2 days +/-4 and can skip up to 4x












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Old 03-07-2019, 07:42 PM
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spawnlength variance would more correctly emulate player knowledge at the time

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