Some thoughts on g12

"Acrofales;c-1234580" wrote:

"First_but_66_Order;d-128227" wrote:
The devs stated that g12 will be a huge stats improve to 7* toons.
Heroic raids, esp. Rancor became relatively easy to solo, even with g11 toons.
I am afraid that g12 will cause an overrun of these raids, becoming too easy for the lucky ones, who were able to get the highest gear level to the right toons.
So, this raises the question, what can we expect, will there be any change on the raids?

You're saying g12 will make it even faster to solo Rancor than 6 minutes? Really. Who cares about the difference between 3 and 6 minutes. It's already a trivially short time to solo the raid. What they need to do is make Rancor's gear irrelevant so guilds no longer care about it, in much the same way that MMOs do when a new raid tier is released. So far CG has not done that. The gear grind is only longer and not allowing an easy route to do to the first tiers leaves Rancor just as important now as when it was released over a year ago.

The same goes for hAAT. It may not be trivially soloable right now, but given time, it should be. Toons get more powerful and that is good: that's the whole point of progression. The weird thing is to require people to still run old content.

Well, You got it. Any upgrade make raids easier and easier and yet all the loot is crucial for all of us, even guild tokens.
So the current situation is really weird, because they are easy but the payout is low, and there is a ~3 day limitation to do that in minutes (hours for HAAT).
It is really unbalanced as it is currently, and What I am concerned about is that the change what they do with TB will leave Raids unchanged. So after TB comes out every guild will have to double the efforts, because TB would come on the top of the Raids. We all would have to do both.
Because Raid gear is crucial. (For those toons who are still needing)
So, to get g12 you will still need g10-11 with 3-4 raid gear pcs per toon AND THEN start anorher long run for g12.
I have friends just started the game, and they say that it is not worhty to them to continue playing seeing that I on lv85 have still sooo much to work on.
They have a point, It is questionable that the efforts and time needed to be invested to progression is worthy.
And noone can argue with that money can be your advantage.
I estimilate that $100 000- $200 000 is the amount one needs to spend if one wants to try everything in a month.
What is more, the 'top of the mountain' they are setting up with g12 and TB they make us to climb the Pico Bolivar and the Jengish Chokusu every day meanwhile we try to get as much loot as possible from the Everest.
It is not just that you need to climbe them once and you are good to go. We all need to climb them regurally.