I hate the idea of Echo Buff. It should be part of some easy server not whole game.

[ExKage]

Toggle off Echo. Done you won't be affected by it. You don't want the buff you won't get it. You can find the others who don't want the buff too.

You don't think people run Titan HM at i80+ just to help people out? That's overgeared. People don't do AK at 80+ for fast tomes? People already burn through it fast.

[Parodine]

"If you don't like it, turn it off."

I'm not trying to be elitist, I'm trying to be 'hardcore', I don't care about gear being more common, I'm just in it for the fun of being challenged. I feel like I'm being robbed of that solely because I seem to belong to a minority, and that's just not fair. Some of you talk about options, but what about my options? None of you can honestly say that this won't be used by everyone because it's no risk with high reward, which is fundamentally appealing. I won't be able to do Coil or possibly Titan HM by the time this patch drops, so that original experience is just lost to me forever now? It's not fair.

Aren't you overreacting? It's true in a DF party you can't control what the mentality of the other members will be, but you can still use the party finder with the explicit goal of 'no echo buff win' to look for like-minded players. It really isn't 'lost to you forever'.