Are you happy with the current raiding structure in this game?

[Risvertasashi]

So they chose 7 other friends over you, big deal, there's no reason to revamp the raid scene over it.

You're free to have your opinion, of course, but many of us disagree. To us, it's not a matter of choosing some friends over others, but rather, a matter of social connections and scheduling that create major accessibility issues to the content. Skill at the game is not what's really gating it here. (At least from our perspective).

tl;dr: Statics should not be required for endgame content as it gates said content on social and scheduling facets rather than skill at playing that game.

[Exstal]

tl;dr: Statics should not be required for endgame content as it gates said content on social and scheduling facets rather than skill at playing that game.

They aren't required. It's like you, and every other person who thinks like this, heavily misunderstand what the use of a static is. It's not to get into the content, it's to play with people who are consistently (or supposed to be) on the same wavelength as you are. You can make a "static" with your on 8 friends and run the content.

For example in Aion, you can only run an instance a number of times. You either go with your static for those fights, or you go with randoms. You are locked out thereafter, win or lose. It's the *exact same thing here. Except there is only 1 instance worth a damn, and it has a very long lockout timer. So the only actual problem is there isn't enough raids to justify the one week lockout. Any other argument is wrong.