Let's look at this potential solution. By saying " it is absolutely not ok for trackers to be parked on raid spawn locations" you are giving us a spirit of a rule and not the rule itself.
What I think that means is: "don't stand so close to the spawn point that, if the mob were to spawn, you would snatch aggro."
The only way for guilds to actually adhere to that rule is for every guild to know 2 pieces of crucial information. 1. Where exactly (x,y cords) does a mob spawn and 2. exactly how large is a mob's radius (in actual units).
Every guild is going to want to stand in range enough to view the mobs when they spawn, that is a given. But, beyond that, every guild is going to want to stand absolutely as close to that spawn point as possible without breaking the rules. If a guild says "I know what the GMs are saying, they want us to stay way away so they don't have to lawyer things, so I'm going to put my mage over here where I know I am safe" then they will ALWAYS loos FTE to the guild that rides the rules like a lawyer-- its too much of a disadvantage.
So, we either have to have that specific info on all of the FTE raid mobs (does this include Noble clickfest?) and their radius of aggro (also, means trackers need to be 60 otherwise they will increase their aggro radius... sitting/standing?) or we have to look at a new solution.
I love mages and I think that this change to the raid scene has been the first thing on this server to make the mage relevant again, but what is the disadvantage to removing them from the tracking picture? If we remove mages then everyone will use rangers and they will just be used to smash a /gu "X POPPED LOG OVER NOW" button or something and the tagger bard gets to do all the leg work himself right? If its a ranger tracker then you just have to be in tracking radius and no one cares how close to the mob you are.
I'm not disgruntled, I'm just trying to be practical and understand what needs to be done in the future.
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