I thought I would reply to this, purely because you called into question the methods TTS uses to find their maps, our use of TeamSpeak, and the application process of our guilds.
To give you some background information, on Average we have 240-320 people on TeamSpeak for Triple Trouble alone. We run roughly 4-5 Tequatl’s during one raid block, and the only requirement we ask is that: 1.) Our members are repping TTS, and 2.) you get on TeamSpeak. There’s nothing malicious about this, nor is there an issue with people claiming we are “shady” by giving out our TeamSpeak for the OPEN use of the community. Furthermore, we shouldn’t be held accountable for any negative things that occur to someone because they download TeamSpeak (a program that’s widely considered clean, so for you to suggest we’re going to “hack accounts” is hilarious.)
To address the issue you have with the methods we use to find maps, I’ll clue you in rather quickly. We ask our members to flood maps (anyone on our Teamspeak begins to pour into Sparkfly Fen) and the first thing we ask is that everyone begins repping TTS so we may find a map, without causing too much inconvenience within other people attempting to organize Tequatl. More often than not, we are the first to load into freshly spawned maps, and as such cannot be placed at fault for the way ArenaNet utilizes their mega-server system. If there were a server list, we could possibly just enter a world and take our members with us immediately, thus not causing a rift within those who attempt to organize maps themselves. Yet, this functionality is not in the game, so we are left to our devices. I apologize if you feel we are maliciously filling maps and “abandoning” them so you cannot get your kill, which is completely against what we stand for.
Our goals as TTS leaders is to get players their kills, foster community relationships, and generally encourage people to socialize. This is the reason I show up everyday, I honestly don’t care about the loot, nor do I need anything from either of these fights. It’s not as if TTS is forcing people to pay a gold-fee to taxi into our maps, and there’s no requirement besides the TeamSpeak application itself to join our Teamspeak. We haven’t even been using our member server-group (to give priority taxi’s) because we want to give everyone a chance to participate in the fight. If you truly feel that TTS is elitist, there’s nothing I can do to strike that preconceived notion from your mind-set. Legitimately, our application process is quite possibly the easiest thing to do in the entire game. We only have an application process because we have over 4,000 members.
Honestly, if you don’t wish to work with other people, if you refuse to download TeamSpeak, and you refuse to coordinate complex kills like this, then I must respectfully ask you to stick to the easier content. I don’t mean to be rude, but this is Mega-boss content, it’s raid level content and is meant to be hard. If you truly believe that you can organize a fight of this scale (30-40 people on each Wurm, including a condition team and a reflect team, PER wurm) then be my guest. However, the hardest part comes next – ensuring each Wurm is in its critical damage state so it can be decapitated within 1 minute of the first decapitation. If you can do this without utilizing outside functions, then you don’t ever need to play this game again, because you’re a wizard.
TL;DR – Nothing we can do about “abandoning maps” because of the way the mega-server system works, we’re not monopolizing content by asking you to use a resource that’s invaluable, and lastly – if you refuse to utilize the resources, I suggest you do easier content that would fit your play-style. Triple Trouble isn’t Jormag level.
