What the heck is going on with this patch?

[Jinko]

they aren't locked out. they just haven't gotten to the point of being ready to try it. the ones that cannot complete t5 even with the echo buff have absolutely zero shot at turn6. there's a bunch of skill needed to be gained and experience as a group before they can even think of trying it. this is like complaining they should be able to enter endgame at level 30 and being mad they have to reach level 50 first. there is that much of a jump from t5-t6.

And I guess thats part of the problem, this patch has been pretty much focused on hardcore content outside Atma which most people hate because its a different kind of hardcore.

2.3 will bring more casual content in the form of CT but until then most casuals don't have a great deal to look forward to.

If you look at how Blizzard put out their content in a patch they have a wide variety of content regardless of experience level and I think people expect the same here, obviously thats not going to happen because SE don't have the money, time and staff to meet those expectations.

I don't' think its so much level 30 wanting to jump straight to 50 as more than "what about us".

Because there is no CT there is no medium level end game, just really easy or really hard.

I'm willing to bet that come 2.3 it will be the other way round, hardcore players will be complaining because the new content is too easy and they are bored of Coil 2.