There are a few servers that don't have a single, dominant uber raid guild that [slang term for a particular portion of the male anatomy]blocks anyone else from contesteds. On Befallen there are several raid guilds who legitimately do compete for contested raid mobs, though really certain guilds have gotten certain contested down cold, and generally will get that mob before the others. The real issue on Befallen that prevents good competition is the quality of the server hardware itself. Folks who have come over from other servers have described five guilds vying for MO simultaneously without noticeable lag. More than one raid force in zone on Befallen is a lag-fest, to the extent that when we had three guilds gunning for MO in pre-EoF days, several times a GM would come on, have the raid leaders /random for pull order, and have all but one raid log out so that there was less lag. We've had Loping Plains crash repeatedly because there were two raids trying Pumpkin Head. As long as the server is having those kinds of issues, competition for contesteds will be limited. We should be competing against each other, not against the resources of the server itself.
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