Quote Originally Posted by Greywizaqrd View Post
It isn't about gear. It is about accomplishment. People worked hard to accomplish defeating the current content. Nerfing it makes that accomplishment worthless. It effectively removes the value of a massive amount of time and effort invested into a win. I do not subscribe to the "everyone is a winner" train of thought. You should not get a trophy for showing up. If you can't win at the current difficulty, too bad for you. Don't shit on my accomplishments to make yourself feel better about your own inadequacies.
Doesn't this sound.. wrong to you? I'm always curious about people who go against the "everyone is a winner" mentality and then cite the only problem is that it diminishes their own self-worth. Something that is, funnily enough, only determined by -themselves-.

This isn't about them diminishing you, it is about you diminishing yourself. No one can go into the past and change your accomplishment or what it meant to you when you did it. However, you can allow yourself to make if worth less. Others simply can not do this, only you, yourself, can make your own accomplishes diminish in this respect.

Now, if someone could go back and say.... erase your achievement dates, take the gear away, wipe any evidence that the raid/win ever took place, wipe if from all memory.. Then I might put a little more credence in your lament. Sadly however, all I see is a poor evaluation system for self-esteem.