not a single player has told me to plan on raiding

[arsenalpow]

Well that's not entirely true. For TMO they have stacks and stacks of epic pieces that they sell. Those epic pieces are what many mages, SKs, necros, bards, and wizards desperately need to finish their epics. TMO doesn't even have alts that want the pieces but TMO will continue to kill these targets to keep the loot from others. You can't really lump FE into that situation.

That's probably the main source of this heartburn. No one in the 90% thinks they are entitled to the loot, they just want to complete an epic and fight the encounter because that's what this game should be about. I'm willing to bet that Rapture, Taken, Div, FC and whoever else can kill CT given the opportunity sans interference, but planar encounters especially are a complete shit show that usually involves a lot of "trains" and not a lot of discipline.

So what's the fix? People have offered numerous solutions but something has to be done. Either try something different or at least police these encounters properly. I'm hesitant to lead BDA into a CT encounter even if we have the head start because I know someone will walk in and trigger a DT cycle just because its apparently SOP, and then we'll get trained and they'll say "god BDA is so bad always training themselves" when everyone how this stuff usually goes down.