Void Ark to drop Esoteric parts for upgrade why?

[Miscreant]

3.1 is also a month later than usual.

And that will have a knock on effect with 3.2 being later...

It will likely be 1 week = Coat, 2 week = Twine. If you're stuck on A3S 5 months in after legitimately trying, then... maybe having easier access to Twines outside of A3S will help your group with A3S. It is a catch-up patch after all, Thordan EX is giving out (likely) i205 weapons, so I don't see a reason for them to make it take too long to get Twines from VA.

I don't really think people are stuck on A3S because of it being gated by gear, A4S is gated by gear but A3S is more of a mechanic based fight. We had 4 deaths during last weeks clear and still beat enrage. It just takes a lot of wipes to get the mechanics right and a lot of casual/mc raid teams need a bit more time to get to grips with it. Even Ellysium has 300 odd wipes before they cleared it, it would take even more for the average raid team.

[SpookyGhost]

I don't really think people are stuck on A3S because of it being gated by gear, A4S is gated by gear but A3S is more of a mechanic based fight, we had 4 deaths during last weeks clear and still beat enrage.

The more gear you have the less mechanics you have to deal with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A3S is sort of mechanic heavy, but it's largely the same mechanics repeated and stacked on top of eachother. The less times you have to go through those motions, the less likely you are to get people killed, the more DPS you'll do overall, and the quicker you'll beat the floor. Hand of Pain and the hands in the last phase also become trivial with more gear (as long as everyone can use their eyes for Hand of Pain).

Plus, I don't know anyone who's masochistic enough to still be doing A3S just for a Twine as a reward.

[Miscreant]

The more gear you have the less mechanics you have to deal with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fair point