How to make the 3rd raid difficulty work

[Reynhart]

Bad player-base is here because of the western mentality.
People don't wanna invest themselves into the game these days.

Make them. People who aren't ready to invest in your game are also people who will leave as soon as the next trendy MMO game launches. Making them your primary target is a bad move.

Because you can't say to someone they're doing things wrong these days, if you do so you're immediatly called an elitist idiot that won't let people play "the way they want to".

That's why the game should be the one to do so...first thing, make clearing SSS a requirement to have access to the corresponding content.

So here is a suggestion: We already have the option to upgrade tomestone gear (e.g. 260->270). Just let the hardest raid tier drop items, which can upgrade raid and tomestone gear an additional 5 ilvl (e.g. 270->275).

That won't work...people will complain that they don't have access to the i275 gear...It's why upgrade items were put in 24-man raids and hunts in the first place...
Besides, if you don't do Savage, you don't even need i270 items at all, so the upgrading option itself should not be available to non-raiders.