Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

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Also note that Blizzard has a HUGE group of devs dedicated to producing these raids (many of which I've been lucky enough to meet personally...) so they have a lot of talent to pull from in both the sophistication of the encounters they can develop as well as the overall quantity they can push out.

XIV's dev team for this is, by comparison, relatively small

I'm curious where people is getting this dev quantity information, you can look at the credits when they roll and it lasts forever, and I'm only talking about japanese names, not the NA and EU team names which are pretty small, just for information, the credits roll of heavensward lasts more than 25 minutes.