Quote Originally Posted by OlafQuintessa View Post
midcore is not halfway between extreme and savage.
Realistically, extreme is often midcore. The difficulty of it can vary a bit but take Byakko Extreme (which is the current unreal trial). You can literally take in 8 sprouts and clear that within the timer... if not 1 pull. Same even with Valigarmanda probably.

The problem is purely that western regions use PF instead of direct queues so it feels really convoluted and complicated for many players when, if they were able to just queue and do some pulls they would probably clear it.

Part of what made Eureka and Bozja NMs/CEs midcore was that people could not actually make PFs for it within the duty. They just had to jump in, and either beat it or wipe to it.
for 4-8 people
24-48 people is absolutely fine. Eureka and Bozja proved this. Take Castrum Lacus Litore, where you had the majority of players fighting a boss they could wipe to endlessly, but 8 players had to be really good and be confident of not wiping while taking down a different boss.

That was a really good way to do it. The majority of the 24 people can be casuals that have no idea what they are doing, wiping repeatedly, but 8 of them need to be good players. Over time, some of those less-good players will need to help out if there's only 7 good players. And in doing so, may become better and more confident fighting a boss with stakes - where the entire raid is counting on them.
Find some willing casuals.
They usually get their PR and marketing teams and office workers to try it (people who have never played the game before) to represent "casuals" when testing.

The result of that is all the normal mode content and alliance raids. Is that what you want? Because you've already got it.