Quote Originally Posted by Archaell View Post
Have you seen our player base? Hard is subjective. If you make it too easy, then our average player would be annoyed by it, not to mention what would be the point then? If you make it too hard, it creates different type of annoyance.

Forcing players to do something they are free to do of their own will (they can study guides) isn't going to work. They are lazy and they want to stay that way. Forced effort is going to be major turn-off for them.
You see, I see this as actually the opposite of hard. I see this as more of a way to hand the guide to the players than it is now. I don't want to put words in the OP's mouth, but the leveling ones could even have explicit details on how to complete them. Since obviously the guildhests don't offer enough direction to people (as many also simply ignore them for the most part), why not just lay out what a [insert job here] should be doing at a given level? It will no longer be an "option" to look up a guide in their free time because now they can will have to play through a guide and never have to leave the game to do it! Plus they come with an achievement, and gear unlocks! Any maybe even a free pony! I mean, how is that not cool!?

Considering myself an average+ player, I would be happy to do all of these if I never have to encounter another "Blizzard mage," lv50+ Gladiator, dragoon that "doesn't have heavy thrust", or WHM that says "cleric stance makes me heal better." I would be happy to.

A little annoyed? Maybe. Happy to reduce the number of people that didn't RTFM, definitely.

And if someone is too casual to be forced into completing such hard content, then I should at least be able to expect them to not queue for top tier dungeons/raids/trials since they couldn't be bothered to fulfill the prerequisites. We do already have prerequisites in the form of ilv requirement, and this is quite a bit more reasonable than gear requirements imo, and those didn't end the world.

If the problem is with being forced to complete any content at all, well, they already gotta do the story, 25 more solo 5 min. instances would be small beans compared to that.