All a "guild qualification requirement" will do is hurt smaller guilds

"Stenun;c-1879728" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1879704" wrote:

"Stenun;c-1879654" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1879653" wrote:
They cant just make it easier so everyone can participate, and then beat it "in no time". New content like this needs to have some lasting effect to then allow them to work on other projects.

But most people aren't asking for that. At least, I'm not and I wasn't in my original post.
By all means keep it hard. By all means bring in more hard PvE "end game content". But allow us to play it. Don't decide "it's too tough for you therefore we're not going to let you even try"; let US make that decision for ourselves.

This doesn't work well for many reasons, 1- the amount of complaining that will follow and requests for the change in difficulty.

They are avoiding most of that in 1 simple move.

They also want to add an extra layer for developed players to get the new materials and give a goal to newer players to build up to.

In the background they could also be doing this (pure speculation) to draw out the big players who swim in the small pond for better rewards.

As they stated, this is not like a raid where you can quit and move on. The guild would be locked in for 4 days on an event where they cant make it work. You and yours may be "strong enough" to endure, but in the end that could really hurt the player base to allow everyone to out themselves in that situation, and no the "but you were warned" suggestions floating around dont really help that in any way.

If warnings in game don't work, why are there warnings on various Event Tiers and then very little complaining on the forums afterwards?
People ask for help, sure. But how many people really say "I can't complete the last Tier of this Event so despite it saying it's supposed to be hard I insist you lower the difficulty"?
How many people have asked for Enfys Nest's Bounty mission to be made easier? I'm not asking how many people have said "this is really tough, I can't do it, what do I need to do"; I'm asking how many people have specifically - as you say - requested a change in difficulty?
How many people have complained that the current C-3PO event is too hard and the difficulty must therefore change? I'm not asking how many people have said "this is really tough, I can't do it, what do I need to do"; I'm asking how many people have specifically - as you say - requested a change in difficulty?