Quote Originally Posted by KarstenS View Post
You should also think in the view of the groups that are advertising lfm for final coil.

What do they expect? People that have beaten the earlier content and know how to play their class nearly at optimum and, very important, how to play in a group.

If the gates T5 and 9 would be removed, these groups would get flooded by requests of people in full poetics gear, max 150 dps and absolutely no clue about how to coil or how to play in a group. That is not what these groups are looking for.

It sounds elitist. But when you really think about it, removing that gates would destroy more groups, than it would help to form them.
Don't quote me on it, but I read multiple times that T10-12 are considered easier than T9, even by the developers, so the first part does not really make sense.

Even without taking the above into account, I don't agree with the sentiment that the removal of gating would destroy groups.