So, over at Clockwork Gamer, Kendrick posted on EQ2’s Research Assistants with a fishing comparison. A lively discussion ensued, but since it is pretty apparent that we have fundamentally opposing views on this, and since neither of us will convert the other, rather than continuing to spam his comment section I’m taking it to my own blog.
First, let me lay some groundwork. Kendrick is the guild leader of a large raiding guild – a casual raiding guild, but still a raiding guild. I’m the guild leader of a tiny friends-and-family casual guild. While I led a few raids in EQ, I’ve yet to be on one in EQ2 in 5 years of playing, and I’m unlikely ever to be on one. While I would enjoy doing the 12-man city raids, I have no interest in doing what it would take to turn my tiny guild into one large enough to do the 24-man raids, and I’m also not going to jump ship to a larger guild just to raid. Besides – week nights the only night I stay up past 10:30 is the night I have a team game of Civ 4 with friends, and Saturday nights Sisca and I play D&D with those same friends. I like my sleep too much to become a raider! (For the record, I’m over 40 and I’ve been playing MMOs since EQ launched in ‘99)
As noted elsewhere on this blog, Sisca and I only recently reached 80, with his monk and druid, and my guardian. Next highest in the guild is a 72 necromancer, followed by my 67 conjurer, and then a 62 berserker and a 60 wizard (who has been playing for about a month 
). Even ignoring time zones and varying work/D&D schedules, with those levels and classes we’re barely capable of grouping up for instances in, say, Tenebrous Tangle – we can’t yet do Kunark instances let alone TSO ones as a guild.
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