I mean you can try to rewrite history as much as you want Cuk, the reality is you had a role, you failed at it because you got wife aggro. I have no idea your motivation to straight up lie about the rest of the shit that happened.
What actually happened is we went to open world and DPS raced for the key mob and lost. We looked at the two raids and they had a much better DPS setup than we did. The reality is we were not likely to win a single DPS race with them. That is what I was talking about when I mentioned I made two mistakes--the first mistake as I said was not picking 40 people from the get go. Because we did not have a pre-set 40, we also didn't have an optimized 40. They did and it 100% was probably the most decisive factor in the entire race.
At that point we could either have a train war in open world VT to keep Amtrak from progressing, likely eat suspensions, and in like 8 hours when their DZ opened back up that only had like 2 bosses in it, they'd go in and finish it and get the win. Or we could shift gears and start doing DZ VT in parallel to them doing OW VT. In my opinion with the situation on the ground at that moment, it was the best bet. Us train warring them would literally accomplish nothing. You training them at the end, had it been successful, would accomplish nothing.
I'm not sure what makes you forget that Amtrak was already sitting on a mostly finished VT DZ, that was just waiting on its replay timer to open to finish out the race. That open world was thus not decisive for them, but it would have been for us because we would've had a 7-8 hour window to clear it instead of the 6 hours you have in regular DZ before it closes. By the time you trained, we had already lost--our 6 hour DZ had closed. You and Alex advocated for dropping in like the 101st Airborne, with a guild that had just done very bad in 40 man VT, taking forever to try (and fail) several of the skips, to "DPS race" them on AHR. It wasn't reality. And if we had succeeded in wiping them they could have easily gone and finished DZ VT which they now had up with only like I think one boss between them an AHR (maybe none.) They could've kept a few people in OW to train us nonstop, there's no real limit to the trash you can train in VT, and considering they had used warp trainers for 2 straight weeks, these weren't going to be the ineffectual train you attempted but actual effective ones.
Foaming described that propose strategy pretty effectively years ago:
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