Raiding community issues: recruitment, player expectations, & attitudes

[Ririta]

While that is true for the game as it is now, would it still hold true if you couldn't buy better/equal gear with the tomes? If you needed the gear from A1S-A4S to get into A5S and on, then maybe people would actually think that doing the raids might be more worthwhile?

I'm of the opinion that the tomestones should only be used to buy gear that brings you to the "lowest expected for endgame" in HWs case this would be gear that lets you enter A1 or maybe A1S. More or less reseting the gear every time they add a new batch of raids is silly in my opinion, since it means that the previous raidtier is made outdated completely, as it's not needed for anything anymore. It's also this that makes the devteam having to keep making up so many reasons for people to do the older content in the game. A raidtier getting outdated in 3-4 months is just ridicolous.

If you do that then you run into the same problem that WoW had - it was extremely hard to replace veteran raiders.

The perfect system for raiding was Coil. Gear wise, everyone was equal, but the real valuable was the clear and how BIS would help you in the next tier. However, for that to work again, we'd need to go back into a single difficulty mode, which would displease a lot of people.

Personally, I enjoyed the Coil model, the problem was that the best story line was on it. So I felt a lot of pressure to do it.

[JunseiKei]

The perfect system for raiding was Coil. Gear wise, everyone was equal, but the real valuable was the clear and how BIS would help you in the next tier. However, for that to work again, we'd need to go back into a single difficulty mode, which would displease a lot of people.

Personally, I enjoyed the Coil model, the problem was that the best story line was on it. So I felt a lot of pressure to do it.

Do you mean unable to proceed to the next tier unless you completed the previous one?

[Ririta]

Do you mean unable to proceed to the next tier unless you completed the previous one?

Yes. The balance was really wacky (Nael and Twintania never getting nerfed, walling people from the easier new tier fights), but the model itself was good as it valued clears instead of gear.