Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
I don't know, the best question is what do hardcore players actually want?
I can summate this one well, with a bit of rhetoric if you'll humor me:

Say you're a raider and while your static isn't world-first level, you guys all really put in 100% effort and progress at a fairly decent rate. You've had good nights, bad nights, setbacks, had to cancel a raid night or two for RL reasons, but you FINALLY got all your gear/upgrades and are now a solid 210. . .

Then SE released Diadem the next day, and someone who farmed it all day is now 210 as well.

That's what we DON'T want. This isn't saying "casuals" (prefer not to use that term in a bad way) or non-raiders don't deserve to gear up, but they don't deserve to be able to gear to the same level with less or minimal effort. Yes, time and future content makes that possible anyways, but as there is no higher raid tier/item levels right now, I say too much too soon. And it's not the first time it's happened. Won't be the last either.

For raiders and "hardcores" it becomes, "Why bother climbing the mountain when they're going to just add a lift to the top soon?"