While I agree that things should be a challange to get, when I hear about things like spending 3 weeks to get something to spawn or good loot is only available to raiders this makes me think about EQ1 all over again. I would love to be able to raid. I just hate spending hours of wasted time trying to get raids together. I work hard to build my guild up only to have people join grab free houndouts and leave as soon as they got what they wanted. I continually try to recruit people to make my guild bigger, but with the small numbers on my server and the low incomming new people this is rediculous. Now I can understand balance and such but, to restrict the best loot to the top raiding guilds is rediculous. If EQ2 heads in the direction of EQ1 and only allows raiding guilds to get good stuff then I guess, I will find a new game. Only time will tell.