Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
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Secure? You used to be at the mercy of healers who were capable of keeping themselves alive against an entire party and run over dps. Now you're still at the mercy of the healers if your alliance happens to not have any to keep you alive.

Slaughter? Have fun dying to the ranged dps the moment you over extend. If it's not that, then its to the caster LBs that'll ruin your party.

Playing with friends? Nope. That's where the GC restrictions come in.

No one even wants to do wolves then either; There's no way to do matched making jsut to have fun between friends, and the reward is next to nothing when compared to frontlines.

I had dreams of an ADS mount, and they were crushed the moment it was delegated to frontline wins.

Quote Originally Posted by Sadana View Post
Tossing out the GC requirement would be immensely helpful, lore aside. :/
I dunno... maybe fill the ranks with npcs like in chocobo racing? The long queue time and having to bother with new skills/not being able to use regular skills keeps me out. ><

As far as lore was concerned, it was more or less in process of being abolished at the end of 2.4.... something that was never followed up on; and they instead introduced slaughter because everyone knows that's a heck lot more civilized than maintaining strategic Allagan buildings.