Is there a way to design end game content that doesn't lead to a caustic community?

[Zaels]

Yes. By making every fight incredibly easy that even new and inexperienced players can one-shot the bosses.

Which of course will result in people growing bored of the game quickly due to the lack of challenge and unsubbing.

[rabbitzero]

Yes. By making every fight incredibly easy that even new and inexperienced players can one-shot the bosses.

Which of course will result in people growing bored of the game quickly due to the lack of challenge and unsubbing.

To be fair, during Wrath in WoW, the numbers were the highest, and at least heroic dungeons could be facerolled. Don't know about raids, but heroic dungeons could be done easy and fast, and my dps queues were never over five minutes. Come cata, when they made things harder, numbers dropped and my queues as a dps were close to half an hour. I know correlation doesn't equal causation, but just something i noticed.