Quote Originally Posted by cryptic_angel View Post
I hate feeling like all the effort, time, and gil I put into clearing SCoB is only for S%$s and giggles. HA vanity gear is only a reward if you get any. Our raid static has never seen a HA caster body and we still only have seen half of the HA weapons that can drop.

If people really want an easy mode coil and for ff14 ARR to take up the WotLK raiding model, you all should be supporting an ilvl bump for SCoB gear.

That's what allowed the raiding model to work in WotLK was differentiated gear ilvls. At the end of the day, many raiders care about gear and that should be an incentive in tiered raiding difficulty.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind if there was an item level difference between normal and hard mode other than the weapon, and I don't think many supporters would mind either, as long as there's a stepping stone into hard raiding and more mid content.

Quote Originally Posted by cryptic_angel View Post
People can see SCoB when the nerfs come out.
That is the terrible game design that should be avoided, not nerfing old content, but locking people from content until its outdated, an eternal "catch up" game that would be solved by tiered difficulty.