Heavensward raids will have a normal and hard mode

[Ultimatecalibur]

Maybe each raid will be buit into the main story quests for each patch. Normal = story mode with no loot. Everyone gets to see the story. Hard mode raid is where the loot drops where mechanics can 1 shot you and wipe the raid. This is exactly what they do with new primals now, hard mode = story no loot, extreme = loot. They just replaced hard with normal and extreme with hard.

I really don't like how they do the post original trio Primals, one and done HM is not a good idea. There needs to be a reason to do them multiple times.

What I would like to see would be casuals can farm for tomes to get gear that can be upgraded, raiders can get +10 ilevel gear from coil. (as we currently have)

Put in normal mode coil with same ilv as tome gear (non upgradable, similar to CT). Make the final boss drop from the normal mode coil a few upgrade pieces to upgrade tome gear and use perhaps a CT style restriction to 1 armor or accessory loot and 1 upgrade loot per week. Throw in some craftable and minions for normal coil and it will not be ignored but I can't imagine would enrage hardcore raiders as it doesn't hand out the highest teir of gear and only allows a small fraction of people access to the higher ilv loot after the final boss which could be tuned to be somewhat difficult.

Sound pretty good except I would not want the NM final boss dropping upgrade tokens. Save those for the Hardmode Raids and the every other patch 24 man CT replacement.