Why should I renew my subscription?

[Steeled]

There's been a couple new threads recently about so far outgearing old content that you can LOL in its face.

I wanted to say this in a few of them, but I really didn't want to jab at people's fun, and respectable achievements:

It speaks volumes for this game that the most fun thing geared people have to do is laugh in old content's face. I used to tank instances in wow on ret paladin. I used to heal with holy nova. I never took to the forums with my accomplishments, because they weren't. But there were plenty of things to keep you busy.

Here, there isn't, and the content they intend to release has famously inferior gear. (Not alternative gear, inferior gear.)

[SpookyGhost]

(Not alternative gear, inferior gear.)

CT drops 80, unless you have full i90 that's already better gear that DL (potentially better than pentamelded hq i70 too).

Extreme Mode Primals chain will give you an i90 weapon, thats an alternative to your Relic +1.

EM Primals also drop ~something else~ which could easily be i80-i90.

We don't even KNOW what Ultima is going to drop.

Seriously, what is it you people want? All the alternative paths for gear upgrading to be there from the get-go? The POINT (that I feel, for some reason, has gone over many people's heads) of 2.0 and even 2.1 is to get non-Legacy players on level with Legacy players. That way, instead of creating content for the "Hardcore" or "Casuals", they can group them together and still have a nice and fluid leveling/gearing experience. Seriously, DL used to have a 1%-2% drop rate and now you get it from a farmed tome system - WHY do you think that is? The furthest Legacy players can go at the moment is Coil and by the end of 2.1 many, many non-Legacy players will either be progressing in Coil or having it on farm. And what does that do? Yep, puts everyone on equal level.

Edit: Though I sort of understand WHY they released AF+1 gear and Relic +1, I really don't think they should have. You'll notice AF+1 is just a recolor of AF (seriously, all of them) and Relic +1 is just the NQ Relic, but with a glowing affect. Maybe I'm wrong but for some reason that sounds like they quickly rushed that in the game because CT had to be held back and they didn't want everyone's final end game challenge to be "beat Titan, struggle for a long time in Coil, rely on RNG to get you better gear upgrades for a long time, then maybe down T5 before 2.1 is released". Unfortunately, because they did this, many groups now have 1-5 on farm. The twister nerf didn't help that. Now you have people in full i90 without much to do because SE expected far less people to have Coil on farm, even with the gear upgrade path of Allagan + Myth.

Speaking of Allagan, though, Myth and Allagan are alternative i90 paths. So add that to the list.