How to make the 3rd raid difficulty work

[Magic-Mal]

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Beating super hard content for gear that's only 10 ilvls higher, that may or may not even be BiS(because of side stats), and that will also be made trash in the next patch where the average crafter has gear as strong as yours, is not a great incentive to me at all.

As long as you keep the difficulty synced, a mount will never be trashed. A hairstyle will never be trashed. A minion will never be trashed. A weapon glamour or armor glamour will never be trashed. Music will never be trashed. Furniture will never be trashed, unless you trash it.

However if the content only rewards i280 gear but we're at i380 and the content is still synced, people won't even bother. You're doing irrelevant content that's really hard. Because it's all outdated.

Vanity rewards are never outdated. People still farm ponies allllll the time. And people will still farm birds later.

a previous post:

(Examples)
Glamour:
-Faust/Hummelfaust/Faust Z armors and weapons
-A10S Gobbiewhatshisname's gunblade or gear
-E.D.D Lance

Furniture:
-Alexander Statue
-Cruise Chaser statue
-Faust Z striking dummy

Minions:
-Wind-Up Steamroller
-Wind-Up Refurbisher

Mounts:
-Gobwidow
-Onslaughter

These are the kinds of rewards I'd expect from the "end of the game when you beat everything" challenge.

When it comes to raiders, they always are showing off the stuff no matter how ugly it is because it's prestige stuff. So that's not even an issue.