[SUGGESTION] Add some end-game content

[Moomba33]

Back at 2.0 launch the tome gear and relic were equal in ilevel to the raid gear (i90). This led to complaints that there was no motivation to raid. In response SE bumped the raid weapon up to i95 and future sets of tome gear have required an upgrade item from the raids themselves in order to match their ilevel during progression patches.
Since then we've rarely had other sources of max ilevel stuff. The first set of Ex primals gave i90 accessories in back 2.1 and the Diadem gave the possibility of i210 stuff in 3.1 although these were both catch-up patches as opposed to progression.

Personally I would love to see max ilevel stuff coming from lots of activities. Add a PVP set, let people grind out max weapons and armour with PotD, let the improved Diadem drop high level stuff, let the relic weapon match the raid weapon earlier, ect.
However it seems like SE doesn't want to devalue raids during a progression patch so we're unlikely to see things outside of catchup ones.
(Alternatively they could try adding content equal in difficulty to raiding to drop equivalent ilevel stuff during progression. I've seen calls for difficult small group content so there is certainly an audience. )

[Astyrah]

Personally I would love to see max ilevel stuff coming from lots of activities.

can't say i will disagree but i think the compromise for these to work is that the savage raid should always give the best-in-slot stuff while the non-raid sourced (alternative to raiding endgame) max ilvl gear would be somewhat lacklustre in comparison

also they could give out titles for clearing savage again (like SCOB savage)

[Ramath]

Back at 2.0 launch the tome gear and relic were equal in ilevel to the raid gear (i90). This led to complaints that there was no motivation to raid. In response SE bumped the raid weapon up to i95 and future sets of tome gear have required an upgrade item from the raids themselves in order to match their ilevel during progression patches.

And all because elitist raiders seem to think they have priority on Dev Team attention and focus. "No motivation to raid"? Really? What ever happened to playing hard content for the fun and challenge? No, it had nothing to do with the content or gear. It was simply about the fact that these elitists suddenly lacked their precious exclusivity to make them feel unique and "hard core."

The exact same logic could be applied to any other form of content. Why level crafting jobs when the only worthwhile gear is found as loot drops? Why run PvP cotnent if I can just run Coil/Alex for my top gear? Why have challenging solo/small-group content when I can just sit in Party Finder? And yet, I don't see any overhauls for these other forms of gameplay...

It would be nice to have varied methods, both for gearing and playing. I fail to see why we shouldn't have 93248753948752394578234957823495843 different ways to gear up. It would help with leveling secondary and tertiary jobs. It would help give some diversity to the available gameplay options. We would have very little to lose. Aside, of coarse, from keeping our elite and "hard core" exclusive bragging rights...

[Tatiana]

It would be nice to have varied methods, both for gearing and playing. I fail to see why we shouldn't have 93248753948752394578234957823495843 different ways to gear up. It would help with leveling secondary and tertiary jobs. It would help give some diversity to the available gameplay options. We would have very little to lose. Aside, of coarse, from keeping our elite and "hard core" exclusive bragging rights...

It's one of those things that as we get on in life, the concept of raiding becomes a less accessible and attractive option. While there are a great many FC's that are immensely helpful and welcoming in this area of the game, I don't really have the time to dedicate to hardcore content that I did when I was in HS . Most MMO's provide alternate routes to gearing up with comparable gear, and incentivize raiding in other ways in addition to gear. Hopefully they take alternative approaches into consideration at some point.