My Stance on End-game Raiding/Gear Correlation not Causation.

[Blanchimont]

Then that is not a raid, thats a trial, we have those too, whats the difference then?

There's not much of a difference in FF14 and that's the point. The raids we have right now are less of a raid than the extreme trials and savage raids due to how little coordination is actually required. Raids come in all shapes and sizes and you don't have to have a 24 man dungeon to consider it a raid.