Quote Originally Posted by Shizzaren View Post
I laughed. I was late to get to 50, about 1 month late, then I proceeded to do 1 month break. I missed 2 months of 300 tome caps. Look at my current gear though, it is fully possible to catch up, you just gotta rush full darklight, and get myth capped. I am still "behind", as I missed out on 2 months of myth caps, and a lot of coil runs, but still I am fully able to clear coil ^^
The debate here is not whether you are able to or not. Of course, we CAN clear Coil with the bare minimum. You CAN clear Turn 1 and 2 practically naked. You CAN clear Turn 4 and 5 with an average item level below 80. This does not mean this is at all an ideal situation, or something that SE should be imposing on its players.

You, and other players like us, are permanently behind. Yes, you will still receive invites, and can still form your own groups. However, there will be groups that (justifiably) ask players to have higher item level equipment. As I mentioned in my previous post, this is immensely hurtful to the community, because the system incentivizes players to stratify themselves according to how many weekly resets they obtained.

We could counter this and say that these demanding groups should ease up on their restrictions, and it's their fault for drawing lines between dedicated and casual players.

To this, I would say that it's not the players' responsibility to lower their expectations (and rates of success, because however much we want to believe that equipment makes hardly a difference, it's still a tangible difference). It is absolutely SE's responsibility to prevent situations like this by implementing solutions such as a rollover system.