Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[Garlyle]

Thing about the OP... to be fair, we have a lot of places like that.

Ever been to Brayflox HM? (What a stupid question, of course you have, almost everyone has). Ever been to Brayflox HM with a party whose iLvls are only ~60-65? Probably not. Let me tell you, it's a drastically different experience. Of the 2.2 dungeons, Brayflox HM is easily the hardest when 'barely geared'. However, go in with a higher item level party though and the entire thing loses any sense of difficulty whatsoever. You can ignore 90% of the details in each boss fight, as they just become "Well, we can just DPS race this shit".

And there really isn't anything wrong with this, but both sides of the coin need to exist. Because execution-heavy shit like Extreme Primals are hell, but they are a kind of hell I really, really appreciate - there is no "oh, you just beat it 'cause you got thirty levels overgeared when you went in." No, you beat it because you beat it, on its own terms. Not every player is going to like it. That's fine. Not every player likes housing, that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.