Quote Originally Posted by Xayoc View Post
The only games with 'horizontal' progression were pre~2007 eg Vanilla WoW, EQ1 and FFXI, etc and to a lesser extent 1.0. Those days are long gone. Look at Aion, Post-Cataclysm WoW, SWToR, LII, or any of the other myriad MMOs to come out in the last 6 years and with few exceptions they use vertical progression for raiding. The days of killing King Behemoth for 2 years straight with no Defending Ring is over and thankfully so.
I was not suggesting that anyone return to that. Just commenting that the vertical progression in this game and the way that it is implemented is profoundly anti-social for groups of more than 8.