Hard raids are not for first timers, as I've been saying since the beginning. Hard raids are for people who have beaten it time and time again on normal. My best time for a raid was 52 minutes (normal). Aetheon took less than 6, no cheesing him off the map. My Aetheon struggle was on normal. Oracles are only a problem on hard (which, again, I don't suggest to inexperienced players). Finally, The raid can pretty much be run through on normal with no hiccups with 4 people. Having two inexperienced people is not that big of a problem if the other four know what to do. Then those 2 get some experience, they can start getting better, and, given enough time and the ability to be smarter than a maze rat, eventually be ready for hard. One last time, YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME ENCOURAGING SOMEONE WITH NO EXPERIENCE TO DO THE HARD RAID. The point of this thing in its entirety is that there is a large difference between 26 and 30 raids, and that helping people learn on 26 is the proper way to go, that most of the issues have been with you not saying that your philosophy of not helping newbies in the raid only applies to hard and not saying that the experiences you have had have mostly happened on hard. Bring a newbie into hard and you get what you ask for. I have a minimum of 5 raids complete before someone can join me on a hard raid, and even then I don't do it very much because people don't want to take it seriously.