Don't do chaotic raid again

[ViinaS]

IMO,

I think this decision stems from the criticisms that people threw at V&C dungeons. Granted, different content, but the problem can still carry over, so I think they've just wanted to throw everything inc., the kitchen sink at it to try and incentivize completion rates.

I think cosmetic related rewards exclusively in upper content is generally a bad move because you end up over-incentivizing, which just attracts a lot of players that aren't necessarily following a natural course of progression. You end up with a mix of people that want the reward, but aren't necessarily prepared, mixed in with people that may want it, and are prepared, or are just there for a challenge, and this issue is just exacerbated so much when there's 24 people to account for.

And that's the major issue imo.
This content rewards a desireable mount, desireable glam, hats that actually work on Viera and a desireable hairstyle.
All that after a drought in all those categories, cause lets be honest, the AlliRaid gear is only pleasant to look at and exciting for FFXI fans. At least to me it's super boring.

Yet all those things that attract many people, casuals too, are locked behind something harder than savage (due to 24 people needing to sign up, go in, stay for prog, content being harder than EX and not fck up / be managed).
Meanwhile V&C dungeon rewards were easy to prog towards, due to 4 people, but so lackluster that many people didn't do them.
I still don't have a single exquisite Weapon except my first one due to that.

So yeah. I fully expect Chaotic to tank hard, be relegated to Discord-only group finding and people being angry those rewards are very unaccessible to most.
And all that after the worst content drought we have seen in a very long time... and the first one immedietaly after an expansion launch.