Quote Originally Posted by Ashkendor View Post
Nope. He's failing to take into account people's varying skill levels and the amount of time they have to dedicate to raiding, though. My static is on A3S right now, and progress is slow at best. We're not as skilled or as dedicated to raiding as the likes of Elysium and Lucrezia, and I'll be the first to admit that. We also had some awful roster issues back in A2S that almost entirely kept us from raiding for a little over two weeks. The thing is, we still enjoy tackling the harder content in the game. So what, if we can't pass it at our current item level we don't deserve to clear and we should just hang it up and go home? Or maybe we should just keep beating our heads against it till either the static breaks up or we break through the wall we're at? It seems more reasonable to obtain more gear and keep trying since that loosens the DPS checks and makes it easier to survive some mechanics.

Do the best of the best need more gear to clear? No, but many other people arguably do, and I find it more than a little amusing to have what amounts to a backseat driver telling me what I need or don't need to achieve what I want to achieve in the game.
To clarify, when I said that no one needs the Diadem drops for Savage I was referring to the hardcore group of players. People who are casually progressing are a much wider group and, like you said, will have many different skill levels and usually welcome things like Diadem because it pushes ilvls a bit faster so they can progress within the raid.