Hi all.
First off, we love that the players are taking the initiative to try and get more real players together and we've recently noticed a lot of feedback from you in ooc and here around that. We appreciate that the way things are now does present a few too many roadblocks to raiding with others and just having fun and we're listening.
We want to trial something that we've talked about internally and if it works it'll remove the need for you to guild up to enjoy raiding together, whilst still retaining the existing process for guild progression for those who can manage it. It's something we could theoretically roll out relatively quickly across all tiers if it's popular enough.
In order to trial this, I think it'd be sensible to pick one raid instance to try first so can you please post and give us any ideas as to which raid instance (that's currently guild locked) you'd most want to raid with others outside of your guild if you could? You'll still be limited to one run per 24 hours and it'll lock you out of your guild instance (if you're in a guild already) until that timer expires. It's going to cost platinum as well, but we'll keep the cost minimal, at least for the trial.
If we can agree on one zone, I will get to adding this new process within a day or so so you can try it out and give feedback.
I've not created a poll just yet. I want discussion about this first. If we can't agree then we can look at a poll potentially.