I already mentioned that maybe it's time to tune 18 mans down to 12 mans, really that's the best solution. Making a bunch of content that is essentially easy because it allows people who are bad at boxing to still defeat is not the solution.
This isn't a solution as much as putting the server in a retirement home so it can die peacefully. Which is fine, maybe its time for SoD, but call it what it is. Retooling 14 tiers of raids to be 1/3 of what they are now is a lot of work to kill something thats already dying on its own. I'm more of the opinion that creating real change that helps fix the underlying issues so more people want to play is the course to take rather than making it more fun for the last 12 people here.
Making everything a 12man is going to come with a host of issues that does nothing to address the real problems. Not being able to field 18man raids is a symptom of the population being low. The population is low for a few reasons, class imbalance, time sinks, impossible to catch up to most the server, it not being fun to catch up even if you can etc etc
At some point you need to acknowledge that one subset of players that are all above average is not how content should be balanced.
At some point you need to acknowledge that sub par players don't get to see all the content because then it would be balanced around sub par play... the point is you get better or you don't progress, you seem clueless.
And everyone in this thread whining about boxing... LOL is about all there is to say to that... this game has basically required you to box from lvl 1 and I assume everyone still around has played for a few years now at the least... if you don't like or are bad at boxing you should have switched games a decade ago... You could also maybe TRY, its 100% possible as many people have done it before, and when I say before, I mean before 2.5 and the massive power creep that went with it.
So what is your excuse? Seriously. "I suck at playing this game so make it easier!" is what you sound like and the truth of ALL MMOs and games in general is "Learn the game and get better, progress as far as you can, but not everyone makes it to the end", have you considered you just are not and never will be good enough at this game to progress past t12? Seriously, not everyone who learns to walk goes on to become a mountaineer, not every mountaineer goes on to climb Everest, they accept that, why can't you accept your Everest? Instead you want Everest lowered so you can conquer it but thats not really beating it, is it?
If you suck at boxing there is this little known trick called "practicing". Now practicing might not make you the best boxer overnight but it turns out humans have the ability learn by doing something over and over again and if you actually try you will become better at it, we call it developing a skill. Boxing is a skill, you can learn it and get better at it. I think most of you have put in enough time to this game to be about as good as you'll ever be so go ahead and do a /played... how/why are you still bad at this game? Could it be because you never try anything new, you never try to play better, you just do the same autopilot shit you've always done and ingrained that poor/lazy play into everything you do in this game? I think so. Push yourself, get better at playing the game and progress, or stay the same and stay where you are. It's the END GAME, it's suppose to get harder and push you more as you climb the tiers, you are suppose to learn and master your class after playing it for 10 years and beating 12+ tiers of raids and yes that even includes basic skills like moving and boxing.
And nothing in this game is designed around 12 above average players boxing 6 toons, but around 18 players each playing well. The fact that 9-12 people CAN beat this content while being handicapped by boxing means its fairly simple/under tuned... That means it's not at all balanced around good players, you are just exceptionally unskilled. Your unwillingness to progress as a player is a sad testament to how much of a joke the t1-12 content is, its no more than a time sink check on exp/charms, sorry you can't afk auto attack all the way to the end, sometimes you have to move as well.
6 people on an empty server farming t14 "raid encounters" toned down to clown fights so the bad players that have no business being in t14 can kill them and feel good about themselves before getting bored and quitting isn't going to do this server any favors, thats just kind of pathetic.