Are you happy with the current raiding structure in this game?

[skaterger]

Back when I raided in WoW we sometimes pulled people that were in other guilds we knew that didn't get to raid that week or had an alt they wanted to run a raid with. You had the "core group" for a 25-man and several people who sometimes made raids and sometimes could not, so spots tended to open up on raid nights for new people. Since this was done in-guild we took the time to explain mechanics and so on.

This is slightly off-topic. From one raider in wotlk to another, I have always felt slightly befuddled when players talk about statics in this game. I don't know about you, but I never heard of the term "static" in Wow before coming to ff14. The way our guild used to roll is that we never had a fixed raiding time, but we would have an "unofficial" raiding time such that if we had enough players online for that night, we would just run with what we had. If there weren't enough, no biggie, we would just call it for the night.

And even though we needed 25 players to form a raid back then, we would rarely run into problems of not having enough people. People were motivated back then and would show up and we had to sit and rotate out a few people quite often. The only people that were guaranteed a spot were the class leaders. Here it's only 8 players to form a team and people seem to have so much trouble with it. Even the static I am in run into motivation problems, people often don't show up or show up late, They get frustrated after 2 or 3 wipes etc etc. Wiping was a given for 4-5 days a week if you were hoping to clear content like sunwell or heroic ICC. Raiding was certainly much more fun for me back then. I think it just boils down to the mentality and vibe the game gives off. I have discussed it at length with 3 friends who came over from wow with me and they also have no idea why it is so different in both games.