Quote Originally Posted by Purrfectstorm View Post
I just thought of this but SE could do 2 things to reduce conflict between veteran players and new players:

1) Nerf content. If 1 person's lack of knowledge/ability becomes less likely to wipe the raid, veteran players will care less about players having knowledge/ability. Echo helps a lot with DPS checks for example. If a DPS player is dead the whole fight, it's pretty easy to make up for that player with echo stacks. However, that would necessitate mechanical nerfs with things like T9 meteors (where a single bad player can kill everyone). While many veteran players don't like nerfs, speaking for myself, if it's content I've already done a 100 times, it really doesn't matter to me. By the time I've done a fight that many times I'm not there for the challenge.

2) Give veteran players less reason to do old content. The cost of this is that groups will fill up slower for new players, of course, but at least they will consist of people expecting the group to be new. A group that fills up quickly only to disband after 2 wipes is really not helping new players anyway.
I'd argue that option no1 is not only bad for the players with no clear but it's also bad for players that have cleared it. The contents, while designed separately from each other and require exp and knowledge specific to that content, they do tend to ramp up gradually and reuse older mechanics. Nerfing older fights screws up that curve turning them into a small curve and then abruptly changing into a cliff. Players who keep going through nerfed content will find it harder to break into content at the peak of their relevance when they are seriously trying to catch up and players already tacking the relevant content will have a lower quality of players when they try to recruit for their static to replace members that have to quit. It's much harder to promote yourself as a new comer to the current content over solo current raiders when the gap is huge.

Also, the second option would encourage the solo players needing help to seek out real connections with FC/LS or at the very least re-evaluate what their current FC/LS means to them (and the other way). I say, there really is no point in staying in an fc that is all gigglesquee and throws emotes at you and engages in useless banter with you (and that's it) over another fc is the less noisy but actually interacts with you outside of the chat box and actually does stuff with you.