Quote Originally Posted by ZReport View Post
Indeed. But we both knew this would happen as a by-product of an advancing MMO regardless of the current scenario. Fights will always become outdated in time, due to increasing iLvl and echo-like buffs, which is fine. In the case of T4, the challenge for those who did it in the 5-7 month time span before 2.2 had run it's course, and in most cases throughly (which is why I enjoyed it when I did). In time even T5 which has been thrice nerfed (including Echo buff) will simply be outdated by iLevel as well.
Yes, but there's a drastic difference between how long it's going to take T4 to be little more than high powered mobs, and how long it's going to take T5 to be little more than that.

To side-example, as gear increases, more during Titan EX will be ignorable - you can eat more plumes in a bad dodge, you can eat bombs without fear of being KO'd; eventually you may even be able to survive superbombs -> geocrush. More DPS will push phases faster, reducing the amount of time you have to screw it up. That's inevitable, although they're still severe enough that it'll be a while before that happens. And there will always be parts of Titan EX you have to deal with - gaols and landslides. And that will retain Titan EX as a challenge to many people when that happens. And it will retain Titan's identity as a unique piece of content at that time, instead of just fading into mountains of identical trials.