My First Keep Siege

Two nights ago I participated in my very first keep siege with my guild. JoBildo already talked about this particular raid so I'm not going to go into too much detail about the highlights of the raid itself.

(Basically, we tried to siege a keep, were unsuccessful, went away, then came back and helped finish the job. Yeeha.)

Five quick thoughts :

1. My Awesome Contribution
   
   I was 4th of 71 players. I must be really good. Either that or the keep door closed on us halfway through the siege and I spent fifteen minutes banging away at it.
   
   Considering the inadvertently shady way I got the points, I wasn't too broken up about ...
   
   
2. My Awful Roll
   
   
   
   Yeah, so I went from 4th to 37th. Like I said, I wasn't too upset. Note the contributions of the loot-getters :
   
   Belmirus (5th contribution)
   Ruebar (below 10th contribution)
   Jobildo (7th contribution)
   Oakstout (8th contribution)
   Taea (below 10th contribution)
   PenutButerJely (3rd contribution)
   Pietor (9th contribution)
   Erazer (below 10th contribution)
   
   Although the 1st and 2nd place contribution didn't get any loot, five of the eight loot-getters were in the top ten. So, like Mythic said, it's not just but it's fair.
   
   Or maybe they said it was not fair, but it was just. I forget.
   
   
3. Eight Lesser Loot Bags?
   
   I've occasionally seen greater loot bags but it's surprising how many T2 Public Quests only drop lesser loot bags, regardless of the number of participants. This is a little disappointing, especially considering it's a keep siege.
   
   Not to mention -- 8 bags for 71 participants is also a little disappointing.
   
   
4. The Waiting
   
   I believe it was Jimmy Cagney who explained that he was paid "for waiting". The acting, he said, was a delight and he'd do it for free.
   
   Funny that I always think of this quote when I'm playing MMORPG's. Somewhere deep in my heart I hoped that no more PvE raiding meant no more waiting. RvR would surely be the antidote for that.
   
   It was a little. We didn't have to hold up the raid for healers or tanks.
   
   But we did have to wait for a keep to fall so we could take it back. And then we had to leave for a second keep because it was clear we wouldn't take the first keep. And then we had to come back because the second keep was already under order control. Then we came back in time for the first keep to be taken.
   
   So there was still a lot of waiting.
   
   
5. The Leaving
   
   I was tired and had to go to bed, so I just said good night and logged off. No guilt, no hole in the raid, no problems. That was really nice.
   
   Getting in the warband was equally easy. Didn't have to worry about it already being filled up with tanks or ironbreakers. That was also really nice.
   
   
6. The XP and Renown
   
   I got very little XP or renown for the night's activities. It was fun to siege a keep with guildies but I think they'll soon be a tier ahead of me anyway.
   
   And even if they weren't I felt pretty ineffective as a rank 13 in a T2 scenario. In the future I'll probably avoid keep sieges unless I'm at least in the upper half of the level bracket.