Once more, the devs have said they designed these to be more difficult. Even still they are incredibly easy. I cannot tell you how many streams I’ve seen of people who are BUTCHERING their class and build, yet pass with ease. The dps checks are super light (baring dhuum/largos) and the mechanics are fairly simple. We know this by the vast amount of people learning raids in the discord training servers, and getting kills.And yet that "vast amount of people" is still only a very small part of the whole population. And as for dev designs, well, the raids are one of the examples showing that those can change.When you have a 4,000 players in a single discord of raid training, and only like, 200 players are of the highest ranks, that is a vast population for those that do the content. I'd love to suggest joining these raid training discords for anyone who wants to get into raids! They're honestly SUPER easy. In fact, a friend of mine just took a new set of 8 baby raiders, and almost cleared w6 today on their first time in. Just her as a druid, and another friend as a dps. The rest was all baby raiders. Granted, the population OF raiders is VERY small in comparison to open world, pvp, wvw... It's something I've been a part of discussing with other raiders for awhile. HOWEVER, the general level of raids does not need to be dropped down to assist more people getting into them, as the resources to complete and learn them are out there for the taking! As well as large groups of people for filling out the squads! So you've got the people who know it, just WAITING for someone to go "I'd like to learn it" and they'll take them. Show them the ropes, help the out, teach them the mechanics.. and they do this nearly 24/7! (Seriously, we have more postings than the lfg in RiT most days...)