I'd actually like to keep this out of RnF, if possible, because then any chance for constructive discourse goes out the window.
If you guys want things to change, post in raid discussion with your various ideas and suggestions. If it's clear there's enough support for the removal or modification of rules, they'll get changed. Right now there is no desire to change/review any of the rules because it's felt that everyone is happy with the current rule-set. If that's not the case, express it with forum threads.
I think we have a number of rules that are needlessly complicated and overwhelmingly complex, especially for guilds new to the raid scene. There has been more than one guild that's had a difficult time grasping how everything works when trying to enter the raid scene in recent months, and that's not good. But we've talked about it before in the past, and until you guys show us you don't like the way things are, nothing is going to even get looked at.
(As a side note, in regards to how mobility actually takes place, as of right now if you are a Class R guild that wants to move to Class C, all you have to do is kill a Class C spawn. I believe we decided that downing a VP dragon would also result in a transition to Class C. As far as the reverse goes - Class C to Class R - we don't want to discourage guilds from trying to move to Class C because they're afraid of doing poorly and getting stuck, so moving back to Class R won't be restrictively difficult. A request to the staff is likely all that would be needed. I will say that anyone who moves up to Class C should expect to stay there for at least a couple weeks to a month, regardless of performance. We'd want any guild that moves to Class C to give it their best effort before being asked to be placed back in Class-R if they are unable to kill anything.)
tl;dr Express interest in change, and it will get looked at. If you're like me and you feel we have too many rules with too many nuances and special exceptions that end up scaring off the little guilds they were designed to protect, get together with your guild's raid reps and talk to them about what you'd like to see changed. Have them post that in the raid forum to show the staff you'd like changes to the current rules. Good luck!
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