Raids in general are less entertaining than small group dungeons. Just take WoW (cause most of us probably played it) as an example. The person who really “played” the raids were mostly the raidleaders, the main tank and some people with special tasks, the rest just had to performe a dance while maintaining DPS.
I would hate if they wasted valueable time on something like that.
From my time in WoW (pre cataclysm) raids were a bit more complex…now that complexity wouldn’t translate directly into a game like GW2.
In GW2 you’d have your tanks (Guardians/Warriors) who were absorbing the aggro/damage
You’d have Thiefs doing burst dmg and stealth-reviving.
You’d have Mesmers doing loads of CC and dps.
You’d have the Necromancers doing condition damage (Anet has yet to make bleed not suck in PvE world events/dungeons which would be required)
And you’d have engineers doing…I’m not sure what they’re supposed to do…
And everyone would be contributing to the boons and conditions in some way, shape or form.
It would essentially be a 20 minute battle where a group of individuals would have to function as a well oiled machine, if multiple people weren’t performing their duties in battle the group would fail.
Even in WoW this is how it worked…no single player played the raid…it was a group effort.
