Why have the raid if there is no interest in doing it?

[Vivi_Bushido]

The problem is enrage timers. Honestly what is the purpose of these? Why should it matter how long it takes us to defeat the boss as long as our team manages to survive. It's the enrage timers that cause harsh dps checks. I can't tell you how many tomes I almost beat AS3 but wiped only because we hit enrage. Seriously; I think raiding would be a lot more enjoyable if we removed enrages.

[Felis]

The problem is enrage timers. Honestly what is the purpose of these? Why should it matter how long it takes us to defeat the boss as long as our team manages to survive. It's the enrage timers that cause harsh dps checks. I can't tell you how many tomes I almost beat AS3 but wiped only because we hit enrage. Seriously; I think raiding would be a lot more enjoyable if we removed enrages.

DPS checks in next raid will be less pushy.
Yoshida already confirmed in the last live letter that they overdid the DPS checks in the current Alex S a bit.

[Ashkendor]

The problem is enrage timers. Honestly what is the purpose of these? Why should it matter how long it takes us to defeat the boss as long as our team manages to survive. It's the enrage timers that cause harsh dps checks. I can't tell you how many tomes I almost beat AS3 but wiped only because we hit enrage. Seriously; I think raiding would be a lot more enjoyable if we removed enrages.

If there's no enrage timers, what's to stop us from just taking six tanks and two healers to cheese everything else?

With that said, I think the DPS check in the current raid tier is a bit steep and that's being changed in Midas.

[FoxyAreku]

The problem is enrage timers. Honestly what is the purpose of these? Why should it matter how long it takes us to defeat the boss as long as our team manages to survive. It's the enrage timers that cause harsh dps checks. I can't tell you how many tomes I almost beat AS3 but wiped only because we hit enrage. Seriously; I think raiding would be a lot more enjoyable if we removed enrages.

Enrage timers are a bandaid fix to ensure people go into fights with at least 4 dps.

If there was no enrage then people would just go in with 7 scholars and let the faeries cover everything.

My raid groups causal (scrubs). We haven't downed AS4 yet but AS3 (and 1,2) healing is a joke.

In current gear yes, but if you were progressing in A1 at release the healing was nothing to scoff at.

[KarstenS]

In current gear yes, but if you were progressing in A1 at release the healing was nothing to scoff at.

We started at release.

What we figured out very fast: I could solo heal the whole part till the split and most parts after split.

[Elim]

We started at release.

What we figured out very fast: I could solo heal the whole part till the split and most parts after split.

^ the tl;dr to my point