Quote Originally Posted by brinn12 View Post
If you want the actual BiS, yes, you are forced to do it on most jobs, if not all. High-end raiding in this game was always about 8 players. Why change the formula when you built a raiding community around 8-man content for 10 years?
I mean yes, if you want the reward from the content you have to do the content, that is true. But nobody's making you get that reward. All the content in the game is designed around the pre-Chaotic gear. You don't need any of it for anything except making your number a tiny, tiny bit bigger. It's like complaining about Ultimate weapons being better than Savage. "Why change the formula from the best weapon being from the final raid boss, why should I have to do this other thing to get a better weapon? I don't wanna do the Ultimate so it shouldn't give anything that I want so that other people can't have anything from it!" I can't think of a single compelling reason why there should be some rule that non-savage/tome gear shouldn't have different/better substats on some pieces. I think the variety is good, and my only complaint is that the Chaotic didn't come out sooner so that the new, marginal BiS pieces could've been used longer or we could've gotten some more timely alternate avenues of gear progression.