Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
You're basically asking the developers to take out something from non raiders and give nothing but a 3 month delay in return. In my view, if there's nothing for non raiders to do if you go for the trickle down effect for gear, that could affect subs as well. If you couldn't tell, people hate waiting. If people can't get raid gear along side savage raid gear, then what do you propose that the delay should offer other than a waiting game?
If Alex(Story Mode) was an actual Normal mode then the current gear progression currently would be fine. Tomestone and gear from that could line up. Savage having high gear ilvl that would give a nice slight advantage to hardcore raiders for the next tier set.

In all honesty though, increasing ilvl in raids in general will not solve any major issues the current structure has. Like I said before, all levels of play need to feel like they are progressing. The question is, how much do players who only like the easier content line up with those who enjoy the harder content. Players right now can go through hardships and stress to get ilvl240 gear, which the average midcore group takes at least the even and odd patch to complete. Or you can just grind tomestone gear and have a set with upgrade items given in a odd patch that is roughly the same time. Sure BiS can be taken into account, but the general idea is still there.

While above is true, at the end of the day, gear is truly a means to just accomplish content. It is not doubtful however that a lot of people put value in gear more than they should and a motivation to push forward. So while I don't completely agree with the mindset, I am very much a minority on that. So developers should look back and at least find out how to motivate people into harder content, because it sure isn't Story Mode.