Yoshida, The Creator: Savage is the worst tuning ever in an MMO

[CookieMonsta]

Holy god, THIS. I saw pretty much all the hardcores on my server bail after their A8S clears and stayed gone for months. I only knew of 2 statics still around that were rocking their A8S gear. Only yesterday did I see one of the old guys come back just to sit in Idylshire with full 250 pentamelded gear, a Sophia weapon, and the Arrhideus mount.

How is that better for the scene than what we have now?

Because those 10000 lack the skill and dedication to earn the BIS reward before the patch. This is very much like real life, you lack the chops, you lose the drops.
My only opinion regarding improving community health is simply have more bosses with a more gradual curve. However, I disagree with giving out the best gear for little work.

My group for example, we cleared a4s only once, we accepted that we weren't good enough to clear faster so we could get bis gear. However, we accepted that and worked to improve so our next tier can be faster.
The first step to improvement is recognising one's shortcomings. And the next step is realising change doesn't happen over night, it may be you need to accept that it will take multiple raid tiers to improve.

Clearing early is also it's own reward, it allows u to go back to your casual life and do the things YOU want to do. E.g. Skipping the farming of the tedious 24 man gear.