Again the process for raiding for the best gear is nothing new to MMOs. The lockout on raids zones is nothing new to MMOs. And guess what it works and it's a pretty fair system. So RNG isn't on your side...too bad guess what though you'll either 1. Keep raiding or 2. Quit the game. If you're a raider though, you will more than likely just continue to raid because you understand how this whole ordeal goes. Do I think it would be better if there was more than 1 single zone to raid so you had more options to try to obtain gear...of course I do. Most MMOs have 2 maybe even 3 zones that drop gear so you have plenty of opportunity to get gear for your toon, but this game only has one so just deal with it. This game has an issue with horizontal gear progression and they need to work on it, and they will, but it won't be by removing raid zone lockouts or giving you Coil level gear from a vendor...looks like they are done with that crap now.

People in this thread talking like 'OMG I cannot believe this game has lockouts and raiding is the only way to get the top iLVL of gear'...what MMOs have you been playing in the last 10 years...the majority of them follow this type of system more or less. I love it, regardless if my RNG is bad (and my RNG is this game is plenty bad but oh well).

And on a side note if you're not doing Coil you have no need for Coil level gear...to do what run instances...that's why there will be crafted and Tome gear for those purposes. Not everyone is entitled to have the best of everything...you want the highest level of gear then you should raid to get it plain and simple. Why people feel they should have access to 'everything' because they pay the same fee as everyone else is so ridiculous. It's like me complaining that I don't have max level crafters, but yet I don't want to craft. If you don't want to raid Coil you shouldn't be able to have Coil level gear.