Raiding is becoming less and less optional

[Avidria]

There are of course millions of story-telling ways to achieve this without forcing people to do what many have chosen for 6+ years not to do .. I'll name one: THE ECHO!!!

I'm nit surprised most of the replies in this thread are dismissive because many people posting on this forum are pin the small minority of MMO players who like large-scale group content (as in all MMOs pretty muc) and treat any one who doesn't as 'filthy casuals' no doubt.

I'm a lazy filthy casual who spends most of my time in game messing around with friends, and have zero issues with doing 24 man raids
Heck I like them more than what I'd consider actual "raiding" in the sense I've done in the past ... I've done savage, I've done day 1 ex farming, I've done mythic raiding in wow and did raiding in SWTOR when it was new
That crap can get stressful. It's not for everyone. But requiring extremely outdated, heavily nerfed (directly or indirectly via outgearing) alliance raids for the MSQ isn't really asking a ton. It's not asking anyone to become a serious raider, and it's really not even asking anyone to be "good" at the game

Gonna be frank. Crystal Tower is a joke. It's a pushover mess of facerolly content that requires maybe a third of the people there to be mostly paying attention, and you're more likely to die because of someone being impatient and/or doing something stupid because they weren't paying attention than because any of the fights actually being challenging at all.
You can basically queue up and watch Netflix through most of them while rolling your hand across your keyboard occasionally, as long as some people aren't, barring MAYBE WoD which does still have a small handful of mechanics that can't just be outright ignored

If anything I'd rate required alliance raids on maybe the same level as those excessively long solo duties they've been making us do the last couple expansions (I freaking hate those). Annoying, maybe not fun if it's not what you're into, but it's a 15 minute annoyance to do and move on and never do again if you don't want to.