Would you like an in-game parser?

[Dzian]

This would just ensure a larger amount of the playerbase would never get there. I mean...can you imagine trying to grind tomes in expert with this kind of difficulty curve? Or how 24 mans would have to be balanced? The SB trials are annoying enough as it is to get them in roulette...imagine they all were as hard as Menagerie at min ilvl with no 70 abilties or worse. The only thing worse than a chore is a hard chore.

Things can't really be that much worse than they are now. Looking at various data for example this game has something like 800k active players.despite having over 10 million played the game. So over 9 million of them players never get there anyway.

Of those 9million plus I'd bet a very significant portion of them quit because the game is too easy and just isn't rewarding.

I mean sure a hard chore is worse than an easy one. But the worst chore of all is a meaningless one. Like painting a barrel with a toothbruth for absolutely no reason.

This is the problem with the game. Everything is meaningless and easy and thus just isnt rewarding. You say many players wouldn't make it if the difficulty curve was steeper. But I'd argue and say many players don't make it already because the game is so easy and boring they give up.

10 million players but 92% of them aren't active if you look at the last census.

Edit:-
I'm also the guy with the super awesome paint skills that did the graphs above.

If you look at the last one where I demonstrated a curve in difficulty you'll see I didn't take the curve all the way to savage. There still a prettty big step there for players but its not quite so overwhelming as it is in the other 2 graphs