Quote Originally Posted by SessionZero View Post
Casual players get gear aimed at casual content and hardcore players get better gear aimed at more hardcore content.
Shouldn't you give casual players far better gear so they can compensate their lack of skill with it and join hardcore content instead?

It's somewhat odd that people claim better players should better gear when the purpose of bettering your gear is to make content easier through higher DPS, more margin of error etc. That is exactly what less skilled players need in order to engage in harder content and exactly what better players prove they don't. Thus, in order to justify it, you need even harder content that requires this higher DPS and higher margin of error even for better skilled players. Even among the better skilled players however, there are differences - some would need better equipment for that content, but they cannot get it, whereas the even better skilled do get it by proving they don't need it. That in turn...

If you're consequent about it, it's pretty much a sieve system that can be done as often as you like until only one hardcore group remains, while a constantly increasing amount of people gets locked off content. Granted, in theory - in practice, SE probably wouldn't have the ressources to play the exclusion game all the way to the end. I don't think that's a very good system overall, though.