hi all,

i want to post too, so here goes.  I guess i started most of this by posting who got what.

i know people join a guild for different reasons.  some people want the freindship, some want the resources of people, knowledge, or opportunity.  i think when we start having debates over who gets what gear, we are not considering why we or others are in a guild.  if it is only for gear, then i think we have lost the focus of FSE.  from my understanding the gear was always a side effect of having fun with freinds.  I think that most of us in RL would have no problem sharing or offering to help each other if a need was presented.  but in a game where you are not actually looking at someone it is much easier to take that &quot;last donut in the box&quot; before offering it to a co-worker.  

personally i would like to run kara for the opportunity to have fun with friends.  I have always been on the few who has never cared what group i am with.  i know some people will NOT run with a group unless it is the &quot;ideal&quot; makeup.  sure some groups guarentee some wipes, and repair bills, but what the hell it fun tryign to do things outside the box.  When people start asking who is the &quot;best geared&quot; so that they have an ideal group, they are not the kind of players i want to run with.  i want to run with people who do not care how people are geared, but who the people are.  i would rather run with a friend who has no gear than a stranger with the best.  I recently ran some arcatraz runs with some reverie players who are geared to the hilt.  we never wiped, progressed very smoothly, and healing was no problem, i even dps'ed some as they could get hit with a MAC truck and not feal it.  it was easy, but truth be told, i would rather have ran with you pukes even if it ment a wipe on every boss.  I actually enjoy solving problems and trying to find new ways to get something done more than just going on a milk run.  

so in closing i would move to not worry about who gets what and worry more about who we are running with.  why dont we strive to include everyone in the runs and and all work to get to some 25 man and not do it by the way some other guild has figured out how to, but come up wiht our own way of figuring it out.  to read some strat online is almost like cheating.  i personnaly think it is much more fun to figure out our own way.