Quote Originally Posted by Kaurie View Post
In terms of the gear set pieces, I don't think that increasing power is a bad thing. This can be alleviated by making set pieces part of rewards in raids, no one would require it as a pre-req to enter a static as you need to do the raid in order to get it. You're all grouping together to get those set pieces and progress.
And as soon as you get grouped with a raider in a PuG/DF you realize that your character is trash because you do not happen to like scheduled large group play.

No thank you.

This is the main thing that drives me away from playing WoW as a non raider, despite still loving Azeroth and feeling at home there. Just because I don't raid anymore doesn't mean I don't analyze and evaluate my performance. Constantly being crap due to a lack of raw stats sucks the fun out of playing completely. Being forced into raiding to get proper stats to be able to compete at least a little bit also doesn't help matters.