Quote Originally Posted by Zosia
This game won't have a midcore, ever. You can hope for it, you can pray for it, but it's never happening. Yoshida killed midcore raiding when he left the coil model behind for gordias savage.
This game CAN still have a midcore endgame community, though. We just need more to do besides typical raiding.

The desire is there. It's why so many of us were so frustrated with Diadem, and why Deep Dungeons generated so much buzz (even though it wasn't made to be endgame). This game has scores of players who want to dive in, but they don't want to swim in the raiding pool.