I rarely post on the official boards, as whenever I do I tend to leave people a bit defensive and need Conc to come save my ass (Props if you remember that:D). However, I did post when the T9 gearing system was announced and after we had figured out exactly how disparate the gearing curve between 25 and 10 man guilds was. When you combo the (now) nerfed instance on normal with the rather... crappy rewards (the ilvl is fine, but the purposely didn't itemize them perfectly AND didn't put into place a full suit from EoTs/ToC, which is compounded by the fact that some of the pieces they left out are only found on Uld HM's, which not everyone can just waltz in and knock out, still.) specifically in terms of how many badges you earn, the 'fun' of gearing up is just kinda gone and that's a lot of the raid 'game', good times with friends aside. Going back to my original point, this was kinda why I was against the badge-loot system: Long after you'd prefer to stop running something, if you know there's a chance that a picking up some offspec tier gear to help out your healing suit, you'd still stop and hope. With gearing from badges, it just feels like another grind, one that punishes people that don't play every day, offspecs and alts.
Proof pudding, Lurkers still doesn't have anyone with 4pc T9, and only a handful of us have 2pc but nowhere near as many as the alts (%wise) that Keepers do, because of how much harder it is to gear when you don't run 25m's (and PuG ToC's aren't going to happen on Terenas, just not that kinda culture).
Cheers,
~FragB)
Proof pudding, Lurkers still doesn't have anyone with 4pc T9, and only a handful of us have 2pc but nowhere near as many as the alts (%wise) that Keepers do, because of how much harder it is to gear when you don't run 25m's (and PuG ToC's aren't going to happen on Terenas, just not that kinda culture).
Cheers,
~FragB)
Hardcore Diablo 1/2/3/4 & Retail/Classic WoW adventurer.