New NMs

[Akumu]

There are plenty of ways to add rare great pieces of armor without having people waste 24hrs of life and fight against bots just to get. Full parties will get the best gear from dungeons and fighting NMs. Light parties will will get the good but not great pieces.

This game will not get 24hr HNMs just appeal to a small base that have a lot of time on their hands. Games can become challenging and harder without setting major time sinks.

I'm hoping battle positions play a bigger part in tactics.

hardcore =/= casual and it will always be that way. However, wanting major time sinks doesn't even make you hardcore. You're just someone that has major time on his/her hands.