Castrum is dead. Please do something, Squenix

[Gobio]

Completely untrue. I raided in huge 70+ people raids plenty back in the 90s in EverQuest without any voice communication at all. We communicated in game. Wanna use voice in Savage with a set group who know each other, fine, but it's ridiculous to expect that people are randomly going to get in voice chat for what is purported to be content aimed at casuals. Especially women like myself. I do not get on voice with people I don't know and I know many other women who won't as well due to the harassment we've gotten over the years.

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. All i did in all of those raids is
1 - have cleric follow main
2 - find a corner, all face wall
3 - wait until tank pull count down
4 - press 1 on each keyboard, 1 second part for every 10 second.
(repeat for 30 minutes)

of course you don't need a discord for that!

[TaleraRistain]

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. All i did in all of those raids is
1 - have cleric follow main
2 - find a corner, all face wall
3 - wait until tank pull count down
4 - press 1 on each keyboard, 1 second part for every 10 second.
(repeat for 30 minutes)

of course you don't need a discord for that!

I was an enchanter. We had class specific-chats set up to coordinate our mezzes and charms, clerics had theirs to coordinate chain heals, etc. The main raid chat had instructions going out constantly from our raid leader. And we had our group chats for further coordination. And we would shoot the shit in zone chat or shout.

I had a face a wall a lot but that's because the lag was atrocious if you didn't, not because we weren't engaging. Not sure how you raided without communicating with your fellows. And it was a lot more engaging that sitting and listening to call outs.

[Iscah]

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. [...]
of course you don't need a discord for that!

Well no, if you are controlling all five characters then there's not much need for "the player of each character" to use Discord to communicate with the others.