Well in my opinion, raiders still have the edge because you cant buy all that raid gear. As with T7, you could only buy the chest and hands, and some sparse other slot pieces with EoH. With EoV you could buy pieces for different slots again. Havent looked much into conquest but I expect it to follow the pattern. So with EoH,EoV and EoC rewards all available, should almost be able to completely gear up from Emblems alone, but still not as well as a raider in a proggessive raiding guild which is not a bad thing. Raiders still need goals that non-raiders cant get