[Wrathcaster]

Skill, in my opinion, is what makes a guild uber. Having the ability to do an encounter or event with a minimal amount of people is one of the tests of how skilled your guild may or may not be.

I think that while often times certain alliances could split and still achieve victories, mostly this is not the case. In most alliances I am aware of that do anything of note, none of the guilds involved have the individual strength to win in their desired goals.

While I see absolutely nothing wrong with guilds teaming up to do bigger and better things in Everquest, it must be stated that the single guild that remains firm and achieves the same goals before anyone else, with the same numbers or less, must be commended as the best guild on a server.

If Alliance A can defeat Rallos with 80 people, that's great. I'm glad that two guilds could cooperate and beat an encounter together. But that doesnt make them better than the guild that can do it with 40.