Instancing is an easy fix to the problem of too much competition over too few pixels; and I do think there is a little too much competition. If you cant make those batphones at all hours in the 3-day ToV window -- you won't get shit from there on this server atm. But instancing causes way more problems than it solves -- and one of the key reasons there is no such thing a cohesive community in WoW for example. Instancing also exacerbates the rat race and demand for new content. This is server obviously can't keep up with that kind of demand, even if they announced going to PoP.
Adjusting variance or removing it is a more interesting idea. It is certainly more classic. The argument for variance usually goes: it was needed (especially in Kurnark) to make sure that there was a more time consuming raid scene that involved trackers. Frankly it doesn't make a lot of sense what this helps. It just makes loot even more concentrated amongst people that can play all day.
My theory -- which I think makes more sense -- is the server can't handle 400 people in a zone very well...so making the mobs spawn randomly makes the server look more legitimate (and cause less a headache to the devs) than it would if it started crashing every Vulak and Tormax. Some people claim that it was to prevent FTE races with the whole server at once -- which is obviously lame. I don't understand how raiding with Forgard or Rampage and FTE racing in ToV is somehow less lame than if BDA and Taken were there too. It's lame either way -- and generally what happens is a raid circulation so that none of us have to deal with it.
However, we never give enough time for a circulation to develop. Because first -- everyone needs to be fed up with how bad things are with server crashes for months. The devs don't want to rip that bandaid off. And the thing is, it will likely return to this state of server crashes even after rotation -- because there will always be guilds wanting to break in from time and time. Some leaders are also more stubborn than others -- for example -- I bet old TMO would just play through the crashes for a very long time if they thought they could win. I think the current leadership of the top guilds are a lot less greedy and corrupted with RMT, however.
TLDR: Eliminating variance is the only way a rotation will start. Rotations are far more "casual" friendly (in EQ -- casual is like 5/hr a lot of times) and healthy to people's lives. However, no variance = lots of server crashes and drama that the devs don't want to put up with.
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