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Boba_The_Fetter's avatar
9 years ago

F2P are Raid commodities

First off I wanna say that I've been thinking this over in my head and am not sure if I'm missing something or over looking something so feedback is encouraged.

Secondly this post doesnt apply to guilds of all whales, at least not so much. Also the situation im going to speak about may vary depending on your situation. I.e. what raid tier you take part in regularly.

So my issue is in a guild where maybe the top 3-10 are whales or even dolphins that have full 50 membership and the guild is participating in mainly tier 6 raids is it in the interest of the majority to do tier 5 instead? Heres my reasoning. Also in this situation tier 5 can be done in 1 day and tier 6 in 3-4 days (i think thats pretty common).

If you can do 3 tier 5 raids in the time it takes to do 1 tier 6 raid its more beneficial for everyone. This is because by doing the tier 5's you get way more guild currency.
Most people will say yeah but your chances of getting good gear (furnace and droid caller pieces) are much lower at tier 5 especially for the lower ranks. But theres two counters to that.
1) by doing tier 5 three times at #30 you have a low chance at getting good gear.
By doing tier 6 one time at #30 you have a moderate chance at getting good gear.

2) even though your chances at good gear falls by doing tier 5, ALL 50 MEMBERS now get a lot of guild currency so everyone can progress at getting the gear (furnaces and droid callers) available in the guild shipments.

Personally i'd prefer 3 tries with low chances than 1 try with an ok chance. Also everyone in the guild is now working on the gear they want instead of just the top 3 and random people here and there in the rest of the ranks.


I chose the title because it seems whales can use f2p to do the opposite of what im proposing and if f2p realise this they might think twice before just going with the rest of the sheep.
  • "DieInFire;452944" wrote:
    "LeoRavus;452928" wrote:
    My guild only has one whale, a few dolphins, and a few f2p. We can finish heroic in about 4 hours and actually have to wait until everyone goes before finishing.

    The enemies hit harder, but they have much less HP than T6. I recommend everyone at least try it. The raid gear rewards are at least twice as much as T6.


    How many 7* characters do you have?
    I'm temped to try, but I only have 7 7* characters (level 70 〜 78) so I'm very limited on damage dealing.


    I have 16, but there are some in the guild with less than 2 full teams worth. Even last place in heroic gives better raid rewards than much higher up on T6. The average in our guild seems to be around 15 without doing the actual math. Those with 25+ take up the slack of people who don't have as many.
  • "DorianGray;453110" wrote:
    "slickdealer;452920" wrote:


    Tier 5 has 0% chance of dropping full gear. You should never do tier 5.


    Tier 5 has a chance of dropping full gear.


    Ive gotten full gear from tier 5
  • "LeoRavus;452984" wrote:
    "DieInFire;452944" wrote:
    "LeoRavus;452928" wrote:
    My guild only has one whale, a few dolphins, and a few f2p. We can finish heroic in about 4 hours and actually have to wait until everyone goes before finishing.

    The enemies hit harder, but they have much less HP than T6. I recommend everyone at least try it. The raid gear rewards are at least twice as much as T6.


    How many 7* characters do you have?
    I'm temped to try, but I only have 7 7* characters (level 70 〜 78) so I'm very limited on damage dealing.


    I have 16, but there are some in the guild with less than 2 full teams worth. Even last place in heroic gives better raid rewards than much higher up on T6. The average in our guild seems to be around 15 without doing the actual math. Those with 25+ take up the slack of people who don't have as many.


    Thanks for letting me know. I'm usually top 10 - 20 on my guild so I guess we aren't there yet.
  • scuba75's avatar
    scuba75
    Rising Traveler
    Keep going with the T6. You will get the time down. Don't have whales hold back. Give enough time to get everyone in but even if you can get T6 down to 2 refreshes you can start another T6 right after. We had to stop running T5 because they ended up finishing to quick. And went on rolling T6 as soon as one was done and had the bank started another.

    My guild Spent maybe 2 weeks running 3 T5 and a T6 over the weekend. Then started rolling T6.
  • "Boba_The_Fetter;453122" wrote:
    "DorianGray;453110" wrote:
    "slickdealer;452920" wrote:


    Tier 5 has 0% chance of dropping full gear. You should never do tier 5.


    Tier 5 has a chance of dropping full gear.


    Ive gotten full gear from tier 5


    Only top 3 in T5 have a chance for unobtainable.