i dont have anything against special stats . But u also have to see and not moan about when these stats would be made available for people who play at a slower pace after 6 months :P , because SE would have to design the next tier of raids with that powerfull special stats in mind :P ( unless someone is so selfish and wants to lock out the plebs from hard raids completely :P maybe those people missed the point that its just a game o.O )

or does someone from the raiders want to farm old content for a new member in the static group ? :P

i have raided like 5 years in eq2 :P , if i wanted to i could raid in here to and beat everything , but i don't have the patience anymore to deal with raging people and kiddos XD. Also it dose not surprise me that its hard to find raiding people when most of them dont see the static as a group of friends , but merely as a thing that's there so u can get your gear :P