03-17-2007, 11:01 PM
Quote: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)?
I'd guess that multiple pairs would be the most efficient, though I haven't really analysed it. Two people in a solo farming spot will farm more than twice as fast, ten people will spend a lot of time waiting for spawns. None of the BC Instances will admit ten people except Kara; if you're past there I guess you could sell raid spots. Five could run heroics to make and sell the BOE epics. How long do these take once known well? So far I've only run heroic underbog a couple of times, taking ~5 hours each time. I'd expect to get it down to two with practice but even that means ten man hours for one nether and the AH prices I've seen on these aren't all that high.