Some variance, in and of itself, is classic. Anecdotally, I led the Nagafen / Vox raids on tunare for a while in the months leading up to kunark and for a while after on Tunare. We would typically semi-open raid both on patch day night and on weeks we went for a full 7 days without a patch (the exception, but it did happen), we sometimes had to kill the dragons in a different order than the previous week because sometimes nagafen wasn't up yet while vox was (despite killing nagafen first the week previous).
That said, the degree of variance has been extended here to keep guilds from sitting on each others faces waiting for an imminent mob as often as possible. That *concept* was a reasonable solution to reduce GM involvement last summer.
With the 4 outdoor dragons, inny, CT and VS all being 7 days spawns now, and trak always looming, I don't see that being as common a problem as when we only had 4 things to kill last summer. I think it bears a reduction in the variance, at least as a test.
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