Quote Originally Posted by Ashua View Post
Not really. You can still aquire same i level gear as raiders. What they need to do is disallow same I level gear as savage modes if they want to balance the game a bit better. If you do not raid then you have no real purpose in having I level on par with raiders.
I'm sorry but your mentality is exceedingly wrong. Letting Raiders have better gear then non-raiders over long periods would not make raiding more popular and if anything it would likely hurt the game more than help. Raiding doesn't even need the ilevel of gear it gives out. Early access to higher level gear is just one of the baits (i.e. rewards) for players to do harder content multiple times.

While it seriously hurts the E-peen of most raiders, the 24-man and Tomestone "charity" gear actually allows casual, midcore and hardcore players to all participate meaningfully in the same content.

Coil's biggest problem was tied to barrier of entry. Because T5 and T9 prevented access to the next stage of the raid series. New players with interest in raiding found it hard to catch up as the players who knew the content were all passed it and had little interest in going back to help others clear it. The Normal mode completion unlocks Savage system of Alex along with "charity" gear makes Savage Raiding far more accessible.