Please remove the weekly lock out of stuff

[Skivvy]

Playing along with your analogy. Most people wouldn't eat whatever parts of the meal they dislike. Applying that to game terms, if I can cap everything one week, by week three, I'll likely stop queuing into those dungeons entirely-- if not sooner. I barely touched Expert over the last four months even with the restrictions. That directly impacts your queue times. Three months after release, how many people will be running Solm Al Hard and Baelsar's Wall? Not many. If it wasn't for Wondrous Tales and pony farming, I wouldn't even look at the old ARR extreme except to occasionally run them as a challenge with friends. Very few people run old content because they like it. Say they took away tomestones from Leveling Roulette. You'd be waiting 40 minutes for Satasha to queue.

In a separate post you ask, what purpose does gear only have? For non-raiders? None, really. 250 is more than enough to faceroll everything except extremes and savage. It's there because even non-raiders like a sense of progression. Provide it to them all without any limitation and you'll see them grow bored faster.

I do get the concerns about the queue times if people all rush to get their jobs geared within a short period of time. While I'm sure there would be a chunk of people who would take advantage of this, I would assume most would still go about it in a more nonchalant manner. It's just having the flexibility to know that you could gear faster if you so desire - leaving that choice to the player vs. being told what they can do.

To go back to gear needs of the player base. Even hardcore raiders can get by with non-optimal gear. They have no real need to max out their ilvl in order to clear the content they enjoy. I think it's safe to assume that gear progression is enjoyable by most players, regardless if they consider themselves casual or hardcore.

I would be thrilled to see them lighten up the restrictions a bit, give a bit more flexibility to how we spend our time gearing and time spent on content.