New Direction in Content

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Is this not what we have with Alex? Do you have no recollection of the past? When they do this people will just complain "The fights haveno new mechanics, just higher dps checks, they are boring. Gear is just just recolor of normal mode with no new story and no reason to do it.". There is no winning (although I personally prefer the Alex way). Unless people have forgotten, people who develop the game are also regular players and they know what is a good idea based on the fact that they can model their own enjoyment of the content as any particular working adult, which is their main demographic. Usually the people who have problems with the scheme are just people who did not fit inside of the targeted demographic.

You missed the point. Alex N was tuned to appeal to the non-raiders in this game. Why can't raiders have something more in line with what would appeal to them every "catch up" patch?

Thus far, if all we are getting is SR EX, 3.1 will be one of the cheapest end game patches ever released.

We are literally at this point where we are begging for a modicum of decent end game content. SE is just all over the map and their poor performance is finally starting to show.

I see it more as a stepstone that will replace the tome stepstones. Don't forget, there will be players who join during or after 3.1

3.0: last leveling dungeon (ilevel 148) -> first lv 60 dungeon (ilevel 160) -> law tomes (ilevel 180) -> Esotheric tomes (ilevel 200)
3.1: last leveling dungeon (ilevel 148) -> first lv 60 dungeon (ilevel 160) -> law tomes (ilevel 180) -> Ark1 (ilevel 200) + Esotheric tomes (ilevel 200)
3.2: last leveling dungeon (ilevel 148) -> first lv 60 dungeon (ilevel 160) -> Ark1 (ilevel 200) + Esotheric tomes (ilevel 200) -> ??? tomes (ilevel 220)
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3.4: last leveling dungeon (ilevel 148) -> first lv 60 dungeon (ilevel 160) -> Ark1 (ilevel200) -> Ark2 + ??? tomes (ilevel 220) + ??? tomes (ilevel 240)

Even during 2.5 there were still new players to those the CT was a nice option to gear up. Particularly if their average ilevel was only between 50 (enough to enter CT1) and 80 (required for high level roulette in 2.5). Now they can just buy a full set of ilevel 115 gear.

Yeah, still seems pointless since eso tomes will be uncapped in 3.2 and anyone can be ilvl 200 from a week of grinding DF. That's what catch up should be. Void ark is literally just for glamour and alts, oh and the welfare upgrade items.

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TLDR: It's the player's fault that people are not enjoying the game, it has nothing to do with the dev team.

Fixed that for ya.