I worked hard to get it, so everyone else should too! Waaah waaah waaah... I busted my arse to get my druid epic weapon in EQ during Ruins of Kunark. I needed a raid of 6 groups of 6 for several of the steps. My friend who started playing three years later finished his druid epic with a single group easily. Did I throw a fit, toss up my hands and cry because my effort had been "invalidated?" ... Of course not. I congratulated my friend on his nice weapon and continued doing current raid content.
If they remove the loot restrictions on coil t1-5 completely and people can farm up full allagan in a matter of weeks, presuming they're no-lifers with unlimited access to successful groups, because sorry Echo wouldn't get a lot of the failed coil groups I've joined past their elemental incompetence and no amount of ability to grind is going to offset the fact that the loot tables for coil are large and the RNG is random, all they accomplish is catching up in a few weeks to where geared players STARTED. Those same geared players will most likely experience all of the following:
1 - Have steady access to a stable group that can clear all content that drops Tomestones of War
2 - Be steadily capping the new tomestones and getting AF2 pieces
3 - Be putting pulls in on T 6+, learning the strats, and starting to gear up.
By the time they are geared enough to even start doing what you could do from the moment patch 2.2 goes live, you will probably already have 2-3 pieces of the new higher I95/I100 gear at a minimum. Quit whining because SE has decided to give you what you asked for. They are adding a new tier of content that replaces coil as something to do. If you aren't fully I90 yet you will be able to fill in your missing slots in short order, doing coil with the reduced lockout.
I just hope that SE decides to make the T6-9 lockout a LOOT lockout this time instead of a HARD lockout. Giving the hardcore people who complete the turns in 20 minutes each something to do for longer hours, even if it will result in them gearing their main jobs completely faster on average, at least there will be fewer cases of people gearing their alts faster than the character they actually run coil on. >.<

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