I haven't read most of these posts, so apologize for redundant information, but here goes:
Tiers: T4 and T5 alternating
GP: 92m
Teams:
-JTR resistance
-troopers (thrawn lead with magma in p1, otherwise veers lead with starck, always death and shore)
-wedge lead rebels (biggs, cls, han, ezra)
-nihilus lead sith
-boba lead mix team with hoda, tarkin, stormtrooper, fotp
-just got assaj zeta so looking forward to trying NS, especially in p4.
Motivations:
Reaching heroic, getting traya shards and g12
Demotivations:
-Multiple restarts to get good runs every single day because of the RNG factor.
-Repetitive mechanics leading many in the guild to get frustrated and drop in participation. This is tearing up our guild and we are looking for a merge to get closer to heroic.
-Rewards for sub-heroic tiers are not commensurate with the effort required. I finish first or second every raid and the rewards for t4 and t5 are generally worse than rancor rewards, which can be finished on auto in 7 minutes. Pretty low full gear drop rate in my experience--while heroic folks get a guaranteed full g12 piece drop every time? This is frustrating.
-Some teams that work well in heroic are unique to heroic and not the best teams for sub-heroic tiers, making it tough to motivate everyone in the guild to understand the heroic teams and work on learning how to use them. For example deathmark is amazing for dealing damage in sub-heroic tiers, but in heroic it's really best used as a forced taunt in the chex mix team.
Enjoy/Don't enjoy:
I do enjoy some of the raid mechanics, and appreciate that you worked hard to make an interesting raid that would be a challenge. That said, it is frustrating not being able to predict whether DN will annihilate when its cooldown is at 1. Not to mention the RNG factors in getting a good chex mix run or the +/- third action thing in heroic, which I have personally not yet experienced as we aren't running heroic yet.
Bottom line, if the rewards for the lower tiers were better, I think we would have much more enthusiasm for completing this raid each time and working towards heroic. Perhaps a guaranteed full piece drop.
Capital Games Team
