Something should be done for players that love a challenge in Alliance Raids.

[Deveryn]

It's not my place to speak for the devs but they gave us variant/criterion dungeons this expansion and unreal trials last expansion. So it's my hope that we can get EX alliance raids in the future.

There was also no exploration zone in this expansion, so what are we supposed to give up for this dream and what does it even entail?

I've already listed some options, but I'll go through them again using the formatting.

• augmenting weekly normal mode alliance gear
• Augmenting tome weapons
• Chance to get a mount. (not sure how they would fail-proof this. maybe 4-5 totems a clear? 1 totem a boss fight?)
• an augmentable weapon (Using current as an example. 520->525 or 530)
• more tomes than normal mode in general

They could do this with future criterion installments too, depending on where they release them in the patch cycle. It is a new installment, after all.

Those rewards already exist in other content, so it would be redundant. That's why criterion offers what little it does. Unreal isn't offering anything like that either, so I don't know how there's an expectation for more upgrades from something like this.