Developer Q&A - Ion Hazzikostas

[Lyonheart]

Garrisons giving you loot from the next highest raid tier didn't work out well. When some guilds finished Normal and went to clear Heroic, they already had a good number of Heroic items and didn't need much loot.

Not liking the sound of this.. I don't get time to raid so this was my only way to gear with boe's..

I never minded not having raid lvl loot if i dont raid. It looks like there are ways to get a few tiers down without raiding. The new zone will have plenty as well.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Garrisons giving you loot from the next highest raid tier didn't work out well. When some guilds finished Normal and went to clear Heroic, they already had a good number of Heroic items and didn't need much loot.

Not liking the sound of this.. I don't get time to raid so this was my only way to gear with boe's..

I never minded not having raid lvl loot if i dont raid. It looks like there are ways to get a few tiers down without raiding. The new zone will have plenty as well.

I did. Getting a few pieces of decent raid-level gear allowed me to do some heroics and gear-bash certain instances that had mechanics that were particularly troublesome for my non-trinity teams. I really don't see the problem, here. Are they saying they want to cater to progression guilds or the other 95% of the playerbase? Tell me we really aren't going back to the old RAID-OR-DIE-NUBS crap that was going on back in the Tseric days...

*Caveat: I realize we're operating on scant info, here. Feel free to jump in with additional data.