Everyone is going to see it from their point of view.
To you, your looking at the weaker opposition telling us to "fight back".
There are a lot of people who like me are "number 3's"...
But what I have to "fight back" against is something I personally will not be able to compete with. It feels like we are measuring our prowess in different ways now compared to traditional PvP. When I say this, I am basing it on my experiences at the last two OP battles. I can deal with players and their alt healing them... despite myself not being able to operate a healing alt in the same manner. But the bar you have set goes above and beyond me mastering launcher or other skills. It is something I do not foresee myself being able to do especially when I consider I sometimes have troubles with a cping alt...
Anyways, no one wants anything handed to them on a silver plate. But neither do we want it rubbed in our faces like some of your guild members love to do, whether playfully or not you underestimate its impact.
Lastly, when you stipulate that, " It seems these days everyone is attributing the declining player-base to the lack of OP wars," then you clearly have not explored the more important underlying issues such as the one I outline above.
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