2.2 Turn 1 - 5 DF , Weekly Loot Lock (like CT) ?

[Zumi]

im pretty sure there will be some form of lockout. doesnt make sense if it doesnt

Why does it make sense to remove a lockout just to add another one though? Coil 1-5 in DF will be easier for people to catch up who aren't ready for the current content 6-9, new primals, and new dungeons. Modern MMO design is old content gets easier point caps/lockouts removed to allow easier catch up to current tier, when new content comes out.

Blizzard found out in WoW:Burning Crusade, if you don't have a way to catch up you will have 4 tiers of content and only 0.01% of your playerbase is doing the current content because they only have a very very small pool of people capable of doing top tier content due to gear issues. If a guild got a new person who wasn't on current tier they would have to go back and run the 1 person through a bunch of old content to catch them up thus they didn't even want to recruit anyone who wasn't already on their level. The problem with MMOs is once you get left behind in a tier of content very few people will want to catch you up. So in future expansions wotlk and beyond they made it easy to catch with nerfs in raids, removing point caps on old content.

This is why making old content easier and removing gating became popular with MMOs lets new players and people behind get caught up fast. People already at the top tier really don't want to go back multiple tiers to help out new players thats why they want to make it accessible.

Your reward for being a top tier player is that you can start new content day one. But for more casual players they can get caught up easily to where the top tier players were before the new content came out.

[Axidrain]

Why does it make sense to remove a lockout just to add another one though? Coil 1-5 in DF will be easier for people to catch up who aren't ready for the current content 6-9, new primals, and new dungeons. Modern MMO design is old content gets easier point caps/lockouts removed to allow easier catch up to current tier, when new content comes out.

Blizzard found out in WoW:Burning Crusade, if you do...

2 words. progress throttling. i doubt they'll just give it away. ct is a good example

edit :now that i think about it. the only way they're gonna make the removal of lockouts work. is if they made ilvl 90 the minimum requirement for the new turns. kinda like dl was for turn1. might be possible since they're introducing new tomestones. hmmm...