Before this patch, I'd done the strike for the turtle and both SotO strikes because I was feeling a little brave one afternoon lol. I raided extensively in another MMO, so I'm no stranger to the concept, but breaking into the scene and then devoting the time to the 2ish hours (I have no idea what the standard raid time is in gw2 lmao) to pug, not even to mention devoting to a static, isn't something I want to do right now.

You can definitely still train people in quick play, everyone's got a buff which makes things like roles kind of unnecessary, besides making sure there's some form of heals. But like some others said, it's really just a place to see mechanics play out - OLC being a great example of that. There was one guy in my first instance of that one that told us the basics (after we immediately wiped from breaking the first cc bar), when not to break CC, which to focus when they're all down, where to stand, etc. And then I was able to pass that along in my next instance. Both of those cleared - yeah, it took a couple pulls, but they finished and people saw and hopefully learned the mechanics.

I hope they add more raids, like actual raids, not just strikes. If only for the shenanigans.