If you are trying to say "wasting 15 hours over 5 weeks is also too much for raiding", I am not sure what I can say to that. Everquest is a slow game, where you are often waiting around. Every time you need to take a meditation break, you are "staring at a wall" for x minutes to recover. Depending on how often you play P99, you can easily add that up to 3 hours a week. If you do not like that style of game, Everquest isn't for you.
If you are not a tracker, you don't need to actually watch your screen 100% of the time. If you are willing to enable batphones on your phone or something, you don't need to spend ANY time watching the screen. Just wait for the batphone
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Someone was saying they didn't want to use batphones, so if that is the case then yeah you will have to somewhat pay attention to your game. But honestly it isn't that bad, you can watch a show while waiting, you don't have to watch the screen every second.