Yoshida on Tomestone changes!

[Evangela]

As if new players will not exist after patch 2.1...

why we have to wait for the casuals?

[Freakiie]

As if new players will not exist after patch 2.1...

why we have to wait for the casuals?

Because leaving the casuals behind would be mean!

I'm also not a big fan of the whole "Everyone should run around in the best gear there is" mentality myself. The irony in it is that the Coil lockout is a bigger gap between "casuals" and "hardcores" than gear ever will be, for the simple reason that you can only run with 1 group anyway. If you could do it more than once people might actually bother running with people outside their static group, rather than having a set group and only going with new people if one of your party members can't make it for some reason (and even then they generally got a "pool" of subs, rather than taking someone they never ran with before).

In the end it's not because of gear that people will be "locked" out of content, but simply because there is no place in the static groups so they can't gain any experience. Allow people to run Coil more than once and there will be people that take their time to help out new players in Coil. Claiming it can be abusable is not a reason not to do it. Everything can be abused, is that a reason not to implement it? No. It's up to the devs to implement it in a way that minimizes abuse, while making sure as many of the benefits are kept as possible.