Need time to recharge and have house projects that need finishing but i will be back for Velious for full time raiding

I am going to take a more contrary position, not because i have a strong conviction otherwise, but rather to illuminate the alternatives. First off, if leadership needs a break, take it, you more than earned it. Second, everyone needs to realize you will never have 100 people on the same page, same schedule, same drives,and same needs in the game. The key to success is adaptability and flexibility in VERY LARGE measures.
This guild is awesome. But it is also the most alt unfriendly guild i have been in and we have lost people because of it.  But you have to realize we would probably lose the same amount of people if we treated alts as regular members. So this is a good example. Want to change anything? Expect to lose some folks and gain some as a result. That is the way it goes.
But as for attendance, its low for several tangible reasons.   Velious will turn it around. Just dont be hard on leadership or you might find vancantcies you dont want to fill

The game constantly changes
Your class constantly changes
Your skill and playstyle constantly changes
Your gear constantly changes
Your raid composition constantly changes
Therefore, your loot policies must constantly change.

The problem i have found with rune rotations is usually running oom way too early in a fight. In the past, a chanter core i was in ended up doing a hydrid situation where 3 chanter would be in a slow rotation while 2 other chanters filled in more runes by feel of the fight. With the two feelers paying attention to the MT more than a chat window

Concerning alts, can we box an alt on raid to loot rots? Or is it preferred to play either/or?  I have generally not brought a cleric box cause I personally feel boxing on a raid is similar to double dipping dkp. now if a class is needed and a player is a good boxer, then more power to ya, but i am not so good a boxer that my cleric can be in the heal rotation but could offer SOME healing to a grp. So i have avoided raid boxing for that reasoning alone. But now with stuff starting to rot, i thought i would get an updated opinion from leadership.

Yeah i guess that makes sense. Nothing would be worse than logging in to raid and be told the raid is full. My comments are driven from curiosity rather than a desired to change anything. Things are going well for us!

That is only 12 open positions. We are averaging half capacity on raids. Are we holding raider spots for people who may be grandfathered in as a raider but not attending many raids?

There is also a third open world bottleneck, vessel drozlin in cabalis.
All three are on 3 day timer with a +- variance of several hours.

As someone who has completed this epic recently on Agnarr, here is my advice.

Even if you have decided to wait til several expansion to do the epic once the rush has died down and the bottlenecks are not poopsocked, there is a lot you can do to casually collect stuff. At a minimum, do the pre quests so you can get the combine sacks from the quest givers.

Next, go ahead and get the 4 dull gems from the Fiona Vie npc and keep them on your person, you never know when you will have the opportunity to get these charm turn ins done.

Show up for every guild trip to Royals in chardok when we go to get clerics their drops there. Be sure to speak up that you need the prince while we are there.

Save the rest for when you have an hour before raid and looking fir something to do.

Most Importantly DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED when you see how utterly impossible it seems to get a single bottleneck yet alone all three. It WILL HAPPEN. I had all but given up, then got all three bottlenecks  in one week. I did wait til the rush had passed a bit.

Two yellows from 46 so expecting to be raid ready by the weekend thanks to some really cool Swedes.
I know bidding under this system can take some time when people are raising bids one point at a time. I have seen that happen a few times when a new dkp system is setup. But trust me, everyone WILL TIRE of trying to mirco manage their DKP to the single point and they will soon bid more confident with higher amounts.
My personal position is I enjoy savoring the drop. If its awarded in under 15 seconds and off to the next fight, that is all well and good but you miss out on the suspense of a lengthy bid process that can be an enjoyable experience in its own.
The only sticky part is the super rare and important drops.  By definition these are rare occasion that are handled outside the dkp system. Seems a guild will lose at least one member per occasion due to that member being unable to place the logic of guild progression above his or her own ideology of “loot fairness”.  But as a gamer of many mmos, including this one’s initial launch, every guild who does not appropriately handles the super rare loot this way, those guilds fail. And the gear goes to people who never realize guild progression.