For those of you who don't know, Gear Cheese refers to people who strip off their gear to lower their ilvl, guaranteeing LoTA or Syrcus Tower when they queue for Alliance Raid Roulette. They do this bc the Crystal Tower raids take like half the time that any of the other Alliance Raid Series do, due to a very high ilvl sync (hence why we don't really see mechanics in the Crystal Tower raids) and these players "don't have time to do those other raids :'("
Unfortunately, this means 20 or so other people are subjected to filling in the spots for these raids in their own alliance roulette queues more often than other raids (on top of naturally getting CT more, since they are the lowest level raids. I don't mind filling for these raids when there's new people or people leveling, but I've stopped running this roulette in general bc I feel like I'm being held hostage whenever I see someone load in w/o gear and then put it back on.
Lowering the ilvl sync for these raids and making them take as long as the other raids would reduce the incentive for these people, and also would make these raids half-interesting again, so they wouldn't be SO boring when we get them!