[Scarcius]

I think one of the reasons the stones are being added is because of low server populations. Brad has already said they launched with too many servers. It can just be too hard to find groups when you have limited play time. Those are the people I see actually leaving instead of the guys crying all over Silky Venom.

I've lost a few friends already I started with. Not because of bugs, not because of performance, not because they didn't absolutely love the game, but they just couldn't make any meaningful progress after they hit 30 with only 1-2 hours to play a night. They got frustrated and left. When you only have 2 hours to play taking an hour to get somewhere interesting just doesn't work. You end up stuck in the same chunk for days unless you want to blow a whole night going somewhere.

Anyway, the stones are expensive and in a few locations only. I'm pretty sure they would be smart enough not to stick one in front of every raid mob. They probably wont even be close. Besides, I don't think we need to be too worried about raid content right now. There is no raid functionality in the game and the more I play the more I'm unsure the engine and mechanics can actually support anything more then 2 groups anywhere.