Here is my 2cp
I played day 1 on Veeshan, home of FoH and many other guilds that make other servers look like childs play in terms of raiding etc.
We never had GM enforced rotation- because although how much the high end guilds where hardcore and could all be assholes- there was a general respect among the guilds- FoH,CD,CoE etc etc if there was a force in stage, lets say PoFear it would be a race to get a force and break westwall- whomever broke the zone, got the zone.
Kunark, I cant tell you much as I raided very little near the top end guilds at that time- Velious was the same, first to get into their respective wing had it- leapfrogging happend mostly in north, and 90% of the time resulted in training each other and then a GM would kick one guild out- usualy after they leapfrogged and got 1 dragon or two- as they would not skip the guild, but at the split at the begining most would go right kill Dargon and the other two as they move to the ring interception/vulak area- if there was leap frogging the other guild would go kill the AoE knockback one and the fish one- then usualy there would be some trains (aka we r just pulling tripplets watch out!) and then a GM would come in and sort things out, if it ever got that far.
Mostly things will be okay come Velious- that is if there are a good number of overlapping desired pops. Just the number of things to do in velious will fix it, Kunark and Sky will not...what is there to raid in Kunark? Sky, Trak, VS, Chardoc, 3 world dragons...oh yes the trial zone of ToV..that will take forever to get into because of the Trakanon drop. Kunark may only help depending on the attitude of Epics, as many of them require popping back into old raid zones, PoF/H and alot in Air/Sky- are the guilds going to focus on taking a force to clear out the gholems and CT rather than sit poopsocking VS? Time will tell.
The only real solution is have more content than is needed, that /may/ happen in kunark- but I honestly do not see it happening untill velious.
rant random over
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