Quote Originally Posted by NyarukoW View Post
Raid content is optional, just like the whole game is optional? Right I really get that. If that your definition of optional.
It's not tied to progression, it's not necessary to clear anything, every drop has an equivalent that doesn't require raiding. The story is going to be available through story mode Coil eventually. The only reason to compromise the difficulty of the content is because people are too lazy to put the effort into the fights as they were designed, even after it's already been de-facto nerfed by iLvl raising well beyond what it was intended to be cleared on. Most of these players have no interest in learning or even attempting to do these fights as they stand, they just want to log in and collect their High Allagan gear and feel good about how cool they now look that they have something that was previously off limits to them. Then they get stuck on the next stage of Coil and the cycle continues.