Can we get some sort of content gate for level 70 content?

[Waliel]

I remember when wow did something like this.

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They were actually easier than i'm making them sound at the silver level of difficulty. At gold, things get more hectic all over the place, but silver is just a very average difficulty (bronze just makes sure that you are classified as a living organism)

Difficulty was the problem. Silver was so easy you could beat it pretty much knowing nothing, because the game was generous enough to always tell you what to do and dropped damage buffs that made all the dps checks moot. It was literally "stand still, read what you need to do, kill this big guy at the end with 100% damage buff". Now that I think about it, I think it was fully voiced, so you didn't even have to read. The implementation was pretty bad for the intended purpose.

Silver was maybe a little bit harder than FFXIV solo trials. It didn't gate anyone and the WoW equivalent of ice mages were able to clear it. Gold DPS wasn't too hard either. I beat it on the second try as a class I had never played before and used the free lvl 90 skip thingy. Bronze was basically hall of the novice. There would need to be a some degree of challenge for gating EX stuff and I doubt we'll ever see one for story mode, because, well, story.