Originally Posted by Esajin
What about letting the raid leader decide about the instance reset timer? One issue I remember some casual guilds have is that they would raid only a couple times per week, and as such would hardly ever be able to hit on the later bosses of a given instance because of the reset timer.
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I want this. I want this badly. I don't care whether people call me hardcore or casual or Sally, but I do not want to be forced to do an entire raid within one week. If I could spread a Karazhan run out over an entire month, I would (sometimes) do so.
Another thing that would do the trick for me, which I've heard discussed from time to time on these forums, would be reputation-based "checkpoints". Like, at Honored with Violet Eye, the back door starts out already open, that sort of thing. The point would be to permit me to progress through a given raid more
slowly than the maximum rate Blizzard is using to throttle gear/progression, while still actually
progressing.
(I prefer to raid no more than one or twice a week tops,
and I prefer to only raid between 8pm and 11pm,
and I stop having fun if the group is in too much of a rush. This hasn't been a great combo...)
That ain't the only problem the groups I run with have had. There are some of us who are more dedicated to learning encounters and experimenting and studying and trying new tactics. For example,
I don't feel I've beaten a raid encounter until I've personally beaten it as tank, DPS, and healer. There are others who approach such stuff with a more relaxed attitude. And, there are others who approach such stuff with a
less relaxed attitude -- folks who don't want to start running Karazhan on alts until they're further along in 25-mans on their mains.
We're buddies. We want to play together because we enjoy each other's company, even if playing together isn't the
only way we play. When we try to put a run together, lockouts wreak havoc.
I want to see some mechanism by which someone who is already locked to another instance can join someone else
just for fun/experience, with no participation in the loot. That way, on my more well-geared warlock and resto druid, I can hang out with my more-progressed friends and learn encounters with them, but if my less-advanced group ends up with an extra tank and needs me to bring my healer instead in a given week, I can do so without lockout trouble.