So pretty much I missed the boat on Darkhold. It took me about a year to get my first class to level 50 due to the fact most people I started the game with quit after a month, I had nobody to exp group with. I did not have a level 50 when Darkhold was out.

Now that I do I was looking forward to doing the new raids since people would be actually be doing them now.

Raid attunements are a pretty bad idea and for someone new to the game it just creates a higher barrier of entry. This leads to if your trying to join a linkshell or raid group you will basically be auto declined because you don't have attunements. I seen this happen in so many other games.

People do not want to help someone who doesn't have a clear for old content run it. It took over 2 hours of shouting to get the level 25 Ifrit clear and basically all people had to do for that was just stand there while I hit Ifrit 3 times and he fell over. I can only imagine how long it would take to form a Darkhold group where some actual work is required.