Who is gonna raid now with the iLvl 110 gear handed to people??

[Gardes]

Giving good gear outside of coil might be what enables more people to do coil. It's the people who are lagging behind due to difficulty that actually need gear more than the frontrunners. People will naturally try all content that is available to them, so you will see more people in coil when they unlock it. If coil participation is declining right now it would be because the people who have been farming it for months are done with it now, while people who haven't got there yet are not seeing difficulty eased enough to make it happen.

I honestly doubt that letting full tome people turn into i110s would suddenly make them clear T5 without problems. If yoshi wants more people doing coil2, he might as well just nerf twintania really really hard (twisters only doing 1000 dmg, arena wall only does 1000 damage wall and push you back in,etc) or just give people a free pass and unleash them into coil2 pugs immediately.

But he's not. He's capping the echo at 20%.