Sea/Sky/Nyzul/ZNM/HNM Can I have It?

[BoltNixter]

I am 100% with OP on this. Raiding is fun but we will bash our heads into a wall if it raiding keeps coming out ala "insert generic MMO". Coils will eventually get boring, CT will as well when ppl run thru it like cake because we are geared with lvl 90 gear.
And when all this is done, an expansion will come out and we will do the same but in different scenery. Grinding for "rep"/tomes will just be the same over and over.
In "Insert generic MMO" people are fed up with the rep grind and we can clearly see the drop in subs. Of course we see new raids here and there but its not enough.
Wiping over and over on some bosses is not the right way to go. In those "insert generic MMO" there are new ideas coming up and we start to see open maps with popped content and open world events.
The major problem with CT is that so many ppl wont feel the need to do it since gear level is gonna be lower then AF+1, unless we see another tier of "tomes" for AF+2. (which is what i think will happen)

There is one thing that i don't agree with OP is to make pop items sellable. The problem with that is that Gil sellers will own the market, that's why they changed it in FFXI.

-make open world maps ala sky/sea
-make NM and HNM with pop items (with bound drops)
-make "tomes" collecting harder to get and with lower gear level then the upcoming raid
-make "beastmen seals" worth something and bring BCNM back!

DIVERSITY, DIVERSITY, DIVERSITY!
Happy hunting!