Okay, so having used the new Dom system, some observations:

– You would have to be an idiot to run forums if you have less than twelve. The vanilla scoops are amazingly easy to rack up, and vanilla raiding is a MUCH faster process (ran a raid that yielded 68 scoops in about ten minutes)

– It doesn’t seem like re-norming the lemon scoops did much; I still pulled the full 36 for my run

Time will tell on the pistachio scoops, but it’s looking like running 12- and 13-forum raids is now a requirement rather than an option. Interestingly, this might mean that any character strong enough to pwn 12 forums (so around level 4) can now compete on essentially the same level as a level-capped character.