Why vertical progression is poorly implemented

[Xtrasweettea]

It got worse when Delve came out because people started requiring bards to have the empy harp that did 3-4 songs, to get through the zone fast to do all 5 nms and the boss. There was like maybe 4-5 bards per server that had the harp some people did get it for their mules. So they were always getting tells because if they had no empy bard they didn't even want to go cause it meant not being able to do the zone due to having less buffs.

On Laskshmi, the "BRD Empy Harp only" limitation lasted for a few days to my knowledge when people were attempting to run Delve beyond farming. We had a shortage of BRDs on the server compared to demand. I knew of two Empy Harp owners. PUG runs were still done, though.

The LS I was in came over the lack of Harp by Bard Swapping (which should been done anyway, regardless of Harp or not) when we did Delve. We also did COR swapping on top of that.