Originally Posted by Str0b0

Elite has nothing to do with equipment and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with the number of people in the guild. and what is this pro player you speak of? You can get paid to play this game? Like all NBA and such? There are good players and there are bad players but then there are also good guilds full of good players who could do these missions but won't get the chance because they are in small guilds that selectively recruit instead of slapping up messages in town and getting a ton of people and shotgunning the faction farming. The fact that you can repeat the quests to gain faction over and over and over again means that the guilds with the highest member counts, again not necessarily the most skilled, will be able to maintain faction and rank higher than smaller guilds who may have more skilled players just not necessarily as many peons to do the ridiculously easy faction farming quests. My guild has enough players to field an elite mission team and we could win it too, easily, hands down because we cooperate, discuss strategy and execute strategy flawlessly in PvE. will we ever get to try them? No because we only have like 18 members and we don't want to ally with just any random grind monkey guild. We have standards, hence the low member count. I don't get this whole elite player = good equipment and a big guild. Everyone in my guild has high end equipment. Could we take on The Last Pride and win? No probably not. The only thing high end equipment means is that we are, if anything, elite farmers with tons of good spots and strategies for making cash. It sure as hell doesn't make us elite players. We're all good players but not elite by any stretch. We can and have destroyed PvE areas that even the best prepared groups have a hard time with and we have done it with ease because we custom set our skills and our builds to the particular situation, we discuss our strategy beforehand and we stick to it.. I say to you that if given the opportunity we could win an elite mission. Maybe not the first time but definately the second. The problem is that good players like myself and my guildies will never get the opportunity to do these missions because we don't have a bunch of grindmonkeys to farm faction for us.

Originally Posted by LucasAshrock

U probably don't understand where is the problem. Elite mission is too much hard for 90% of players. Heal casts aren't enough quick, minions die in 2 sec ecc. It's the state of the art team the only one can complete elite mission. Needs of high performance, sync, full team work. I repeat, normally without 12 elite players, the best of the world, u die after 5 minutes. That's all. (don't try to write i'm rank 6 7 8 9 12 ecc pff..). Probably u're in a good guild with teamwork but this isn't enough. The war for elite mission begins

Originally Posted by vtrajan

I'm not in the alliance holding the town and I am /notsigned.
The Kurzick alliance has been taking randoms into the mission all day. All night.

Went in with a lot of pugs.

Originally Posted by vtrajan

What's your solution to assassins that crit you for 300 damage and spawn in groups of 4's 6 8 or 10?
Or how about groups of 10-20 level 28 monsters? How about suicide bombers that insta-kill you or drain 40 energy?

Lots of other things...
It's doable, but it requires skill -and- a solid, balanced build; also teamwork, watching your position, watching the field, etc. You have to watch the monsters like you were watching an opponent in gvg, because if those assassins train on you, with no pre-prot..you're dead.