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

[Gormogon]

No, I think that thinking Coil 1 and CT is "semi hardcore" is ludicrous. You can enter Coil 1 and CT without having done it a single time and still come out victorious. There's no semblance of "hardcore" there, not even "semi".

Because Coil 1 never existed before CT and echo.

There's people that ran CT simply to gear their alts so they can later use them in Coil without needing to philo and myth farm all over again.

Seems that you are only narrow minded for the sole benefit of your arguments.