I remember raids giving 24 flags Recently heard, PoP planer projections give 52 or 54? Can a Phinny person clarify? Also, I heard some raids give less then the norm, is carpin cycle the only raid that gives less? How many does that raid give?
Yes. Raids never only gave 24 flags. There were issues where someone hailing the mob several times would count and cause it to poof without giving the proper number of flags. Also when PoP released the raid window was bugged and capped out st 10 group leaders meaning the max raid size would be 60. So it's possible people thought 60 was a cap on some stuff (maybe why Mystical Arbiter only gives 60ish to this day?). But it was always designed to give 72 for a full raid.