For both ZanirN7S and gnlarsson I want to make clear that I think that BB's raid performance is frustrating and that I think if they wanted to make them a marginal team they should have used other means than nerfing the Marked mechanics. Right here on these forums (somewhere) I wrote a whole thing about how nerfing Marked doesn't just increase difficulty, it kills a key mechanic that affects how the BB squad is supposed to function. It takes away what they do that is different and cool.
I think that creating difficulty by killing the ability of toons to do the things that they are specifically designed to do and we specifically upgraded abilities to make possible is the wrong way to go about creating difficulty. My whole essay is about how this is inherently bad game design.
THAT SAID, even though I think they messed up from the get go, and that their entire approach to challenging BB in this raid was flawed, they haven't modified anything. In fact, they fixed the bug that allowed us to use BB as intended. They literally changed the raid after release to make sure we couldn't use Marked.
Given that backstory, I think it's clear that they - for reasons I believe are entirely wrong and will **bleep** them to heck in some future life - are nonetheless happy with a BB team that can't do BB stuff AND ALSO with them being frustrating to run for most people in the O66 raid.
My argument is not that BB should be this difficult and frustrating and not-fun. My argument is that CG clearly intends for them to be this difficult and frustrating and if they were to give us marked back they would have to invent entirely new ways to make BB no fun to play in order to preserve the overall environment conducive to the frustration they clearly want us, as players, to feel.
Since we're already frustrated and unhappy, why fixed mark to make us less unhappy only to develop a new mechanic to make us unhappy again. Easier for them to just wait until the raid expires and hope that we're so discouraged we never play with BB again -- but if we aren't, at that point they only need to fix Marked, not fix it AND rebalance the raid.
That's my argument.