Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagami View Post
I see the point people make. Bad or not. I just wanted to point out that. You can't trash "story" reasons because "that could be spent elsewhere", while people are asking for more difficult raids which would raise the exact same argument. If an argument can be used on both end of the rope, you are going nowhere with it.
Except there's a key difference people ignore. When they made coil 1-5 did they make it for BG and that tiny sliver of hard core raiders? NO. Look at how many people have now experienced some or all of 1st coil. Every day more people set foot in that content that USED to be for hard core raiders. Is coil 6-9 for hard core BG raiders? Initially yes, but ultimately no just like 1st coil.

The key difference is that NEW cutting edge content starts at the hard core and trickles down to more and more people over time as people gear better, mechanics become public knowledge, a pre designed echo buff is tacked on, ilvls go up. Etc etc.

Compare that to retrofitting old content for the stragglers. Every time someone beats t5 that pool of stragglers shrinks.

Dev time for a small and continuously shrinking population that is largely a 1 and done content (no replay value in a story fight).

Vs.

Dev time for brand new content that will initially only be used by BG, but then the hardcores. Then the medium cores. Then the sofrtcores. And on down the line.

New content is ultimately available to virtually everyone in time. The "content is only for a small sliver " argument does NOT go both ways in this instance. If it did then only hard core BG style raiders would have touched t5, but instead the use of that content has been EXPANDING ever since it was made. Story mode will shrink over time. Until you can show otherwise it is, bluntly, a poor use of time.