3) 255 mil GP is not a short step from the top guilds, it’s over a 100 mil GP away.
Meh. Depends on what you mean by "top guilds"
personally, I think anything over 300m is a "top guild". If I'd meant a short step from 1st place over all other guilds, I would have said that.
If leaving guilds during TW to merc was a thing, why on earth does swgoh.gg always show the opposing guilds as full?
Alts.
nobody is mercing to do 3 HSTR in 3 days.
I can't verify that people are raiding that often, but I can tell you that 3 different guild officers who were recruiting me for their guilds promised that they make it easy to merc between TBs. They didn't mention TWs in connection with merc'ing, but the TWs are between the TBs. Therefore, the ones promising me opportunity to merc were also saying that the time to merc is during the same timeframe that TWs happen.
I haven't done any merc'ing for ages, like before HSTR even existed. I was doing it for HAAT. And I only did it a few times, but smaller guilds can easily find people and plan ahead with them for the exact time slot by using the merc server on discord. You don't need to luck into the right time.
This is happening, whether you think it is or not.