Bah, arardorf, we need ya

Drop that meeting with friend
JK - I hope to see you later on though. Yes, I plan to do this again and again until all have got who need as well as the other DoN missions and DoD spell missions etc.
Any chance that Deedo can join us? Both Deedo and ANti would be valuable members in the raid.
If arardorf is missing, is there other tanks who could step up and fill the shoes of our sturdy dorf? As previously said we need many tanks on this mission, in particular paladins who can keep the mob stunned until mezzer has had a chance to attempt to mezz them. However, other tanks such as warriors and shadowknights are also valuable especially to assist in killing once we figure out who is the mezzable one among them.
I don't know when Illu did Dojo earlier, I have only seen it up once and that was ages ago - it must have been while pat and I was in Taiwan perhaps? If only two people needed the stones then perhaps you chose a wrong time as it is appearant that many people still need them. True, some haven't finished DoN tier 3 yet but once all who are done with tier 3 has gotten their stones if there are any remaining stones they should be on free lotto so that such people can also get the stones. Letting stones rot indicates that you should perhaps not even bother with that trial at that point in time and rather done something that at least 6 people needed or however many droppable items drop. Sands have 9 essence of sand dropping as far as I know and so you should try to get at least 9 people who still lack the sand before going to the trial. True, eventually we will reach a state where perhaps most have except one or two slackers and then we might do a task so that those also can but if so we should be very sure that we do pick up all slackers and announce it ahead that this will most likely be last time in a long time that we will ever do that task.
Case in point, me and pat had originally plans to meet some friends this friday but we rearranged the schedule because we lack this stone and we are not sure when we get chance to do dojo next time. We hope it will be soon for those who still need but it is hard to tell. I am pretty sure that it will be more than 2 though who need the stone this time. Pat and I both lack and Kimbrethil lacks it and connovan also? That is 4 at least. Now, it is possible that all the other 20 have the stone already and that they are just there to help and that would be awfully nice of them if they did but I don't think it is likely. I am pretty sure that many of them also lack the stone and so we shuldn't have to let any stone rot.
As for raid leader - I am not sure what is required of a raid leader. I would assume that you should be experienced in the zone or at least have a fair grip of what to do - not only for your own class but also for other classes. I don't consider myself qualified in that respect but if nobody else steps up I guess I can be as I have at least done it once before. I would prefer that someone more experienced as raid leader took that job though. As it is primarily a guild raid I would also hope that some officer would join and if so, such an officer would be the natural candidate for the raid leader job.
EDIT: Bah, misread teone's post. It wasn't 2 people who got the stones and 4 stones rot, it was 2 people who wanted stone but did not get any, so 8 out of the raid force who wanted the stone. I hope those two can join this time if they haven't got stone already and I hope they can join even if they have gotten stone already.