Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
If you want to get into raiding, it's pretty simple.
  1. Open Party Finder.
  2. Go to the High-End tab.
  3. Join a [Practice] party.
  4. Congrats, you are a raider now.
Extremes are a pretty good start.

Although we could use more tools to vet people joining parties, such as beating (Stone, Sky, Sea) or having seen up to a certain % with everyone alive, we do have some good ones.
  • Set a minimum item level. There is no excuse to be below 610 (the crafted gear item level). Being 621 or higher means you have raid gear.
  • Set [Duty Complete] so they must have cleared before joining.
  • Check their gear, melds and buffs for food.
As a raider myself I think these things work for people who have raided before. I more mean newer raiders who may not be privy to all of that and people who don't have people to lead them in those right directions. Why rely on people telling you things, when the game can lead you properly. While you're right, I don't think we should leave it up to chance. I've encountered many people who have no clue where to start and feel lost.

I can also say I feel the current set of content for PvE battle content doesn't really feel like it does a good job leading players from doing dungeons to Savage.
For Example: I feel we should have gearing and content more normalized to lead players into, higher forms of said content type. So currently in terms of difficulty progression, you'd do Dungeons, Normal raids, Alliance Raids, EX then Savage. Why not make it more apparent without people having to ask other players who already know?