02-14-2008, 05:50 AM
A better solution still is to have a progression path for each of 25-man, 10-man, 5-man and PVP players, make following several worthwhile but not essential and allow players to move between the streams reasonably easily as their tastes and/or schecule change. In particular, I'd like to see 'absolute best 5-man gear' be enough to begin the latest & greatest raid instance - mostly because I prefer 5-man play and still want a good character but also so that bleeding edge guilds can recruit without ripping key players from intermediate guilds. A friend of mine that still plays had his guild fall apart in SSC this way and he's no happier stuck in Kara than I was with nothing but 25's for further growth.