“There are some things on this list they have never had before”
Yeah that’s half the problem. This is just a pile of STILL ACCESSIBLE old garbage with like 2 exceptions organised in exactly the same way as it always is. This is designed as a veteran retention campaign. Half the vets barely even need one or two of these items. Why do they never do anything out there with these?
Offer a grand reward that’s like a ring that makes you do 30% more damage in fates or 20% more damage in non savage unsynced content. Allow people to earn tomes by doing things like killing NM’s or completing dalriada. Make it a path to the final reward that encourages you to do different things at every step, fish, deep dungeons, unsync an old extreme, alliance raids. Put old PVP rewards in it. Add a more useful version of the strider boots, ABILITY GLAMOURS
Just do SOMETHING to retain veterans who don’t need to run prae 20 times to get a whistle they could have unsynced in 1/10th of the time because they are afraid of their level 80 rotations. Removing the card incentive from E12 isn’t a good thing, do we want even less people running anything that’s not gordias normal. I’d rather take the penalty than do gordias normal at this point
Oh btw my answer to your hypothetical question is basically in the above