And do tell me how it's not the point? Relevant item level gear will be accessible to new players by other means. The only reason newer players have to do T5 and T9 is to obtain relevant item level gear or to unlock the next set of raids so they can catch up with the current content. None of that will be an issue in Heavensward as they stated that our current coil will not be tied to the new raid. It's a completely different story, and the normal mode (which is meant to be as difficult as post-nerf second coil that you can honestly clear reliably in DF aside from T9) will serve as the story mode raid that this thread is asking for.