Quote Originally Posted by loreleidiangelo View Post
From what I understand, most buyers are interested in the clear, not necessarily the loot. Someone MIGHT buy an exorbitant amount of runs in the hopes of getting their dream item, but I'd think that number would be statistically small.
You misunderstand, people are buying loot when they buy runs. Even on content where a clear is necessary to access other content (T5), people who are buying for the loot are the largest group of clients. There is nothing after T9 right now so there is not a single person who isn't buying it for the loot.

Is a two or three-day lockout as prophetically disastrous as people want to claim?
Honestly I think it not a bad idea to do this at the midpoint in a raid's life, say when 2.3 comes out have a gradual easing of the lock out instead of a strict cap until the ilevel jumps with the massive dead period before it so people have more reason to log on.

a raid in TERA, for instance,
To be brutal and blunt, raiding in TERA was awful and completely unrefined and there were many reasons why most seasoned raiders ditched that game not long after it went f2p.