Raiding Consumables

[protoshoggoth]

Why do guilds that are capable of bringing 25 people to bear on raids for hours at a time have people throw away that advantage and go off soloing to get their supplies? Raid (and even 5-man) content can be very profitable for groups that can farm them quickly.

-- frink

Because it's hard enough to get 25 people to agree on a single 3 hour block of time just for the raid itself, let alone a 3 hour block of time plus several other sizable blocks of time for farming. You can only bring people's schedules together for so many hours in the week. I don't doubt that organized effort > unorganized effort, but there's only so much organization an organization can muster.

In any case, say you had ten people available. Would they really make more gold raiding a place together than doing ten separate farming runs during that same time? Or eight runs with some of them two-man teams (for instance prot warrior + cloth dps, holy priest + melee dps)?