Quote Originally Posted by LeeraSorlan View Post
But thats his only point, there is no arguement that points to normal being required because its a gate for savage, its not a gate, its not a gate at all, you can be carried through normal, alot of people are, who joins your party will not be determined by if they were good enough to clear Normal or not. Because they will clear normal, they can get carried, on day 1.
I'm not arguing anything. I'm not on the Dev team. Nothing I say has any weight as far their actual reasons. I'm guessing as much as anything as to why that's there and it seems as good a reason as any.
However the alternative is they just thought: ... so.. normal then hard right?
which seems like far less thought than goes into any other part of the game. It was a development decision and had to have SOME discussion before it was done. Code had to be written and systems had to be implemented to make it happen.

I will say that if it keeps ONE person out of 100 from clicking on a PF because "oh.. duty locked" then it is filtering. Not a great filter, but it has still prevented a totally inexperienced person from "lol wuts this" -ing into someones experience.