Lore Limit

[StouterTaru]

ya but the catch up gear are better than previous tier of raid, making the older content irrelevant.

Welcome to the vertical progression model, 9 month old content is irrelevant.

[SundayTrash]

Welcome to the vertical progression model, 9 month old content is irrelevant.

Vertical Progression, should be like climbing a mountain, you just can't start midway.

[StouterTaru]

Vertical Progression, should be like climbing a mountain, you just can't start midway.

With the structure and gating on raids in this game, making a larger gap between casual and raider gear would only decrease the raiding population, which is pretty damn small to begin with.

You need exactly 8 people, of specific roles and non-overlapping jobs, to show up and work together at the same time. And if you lose one person, you can't simply get help from someone in another raiding group without a severe penalty. Replace with a casual? In your system that means spending a month or more gearing them up before the other 7 members can progress.

The system relies on itself for what it is, you can't take out one leg and expect it to support itself.