Quote Originally Posted by Azrael View Post
Reason why only 1% of the community raids is because there is almost 0 incentive to do it, and most raiders are leaving/will leave this game for other MMOs with better endgame.
I raided hardcore in every MMO, I also raided on FFXIV, cleared T13 in 2.0 and bismarck/ravana in 3.0, then I just stopped, until recently where I cleared the last EXs (the weapon bismarck dropped was a joke compared to the huge dps check needed you beat him, it was only needed to unlock ravana).
I played outside of this one but I don't feel like doing it in FFXIV because I think it's just a waste of time considering the itemization that we get here, no need to put in so much effort and stress myself with raiding if I can achieve the same just by doing some experts and 1 24 man faceroll raid each week.
It sounds like you play for the sake of gear and not for the sake of raiding. If you love raiding, you'll do it despite what incentives it provides.

The point of the expert roulette/ 24man face rolls is so casuals can attempt the raids. If you love raiding so much, you wouldn't need to bother and would attempt it before the gear progression even comes into play.
Personally I don't think it's 'hardcore' to get the easiest gear and then do the raids. The hardcore ones are the world firsts trying to do it with sub-par standard gear.

Everything in this game technically is a 'waste of time', it's just how much you enjoy wasting it. If you don't, then I don't know why you've subscribed since May 2011.