Or alternatively, they can make it not be a pain in the ass for anyone.
Making it a pain in the ass later when it's irrelevant doesn't harm anyone cause its irrelevant anyways. Players can just buy better gear from the marketplace by then and farm those dungeons if they wish.
Making it a pain the ass now when it's relevant harms players for the very reason that it's still relevant.
Basically, it comes doesn't to selfishness. Those who are already geared are not affected by this change and welcomes it with open arms. It might even make them richer cause now they can farm things that others cannot. Just keeping it real here.
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raids should be a pain in the ass though, thats what a raid is. before the revamp you could basically facetank and one shot everything, as brainless as farming dungeons. There's actually no point to revamp it when it's irrelevant since it doesn't affect ppl, there's no point in making raids harder if nobody runs it, it's meant to be a pain in the ass for people and actually put some challenge in raids. Even if I didnt have gears I'd want this, there is no satisfaction to clearing a raid in the state they were, there still is none as the raids are still easy, they only raised the bar by a little bit.
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They're suppose to be newbie raids. That's how the game was designed and deployed. You're just happy because it doesn't affect you. Like I said, it just comes down to selfishness.
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Do you really I don't grind those raids?Do you really think I don't get close to death with the revamped versions? It does affect me as well. I actually die in LC with the revamp even with proper gears. Right now you're just being the typical casual whining that everything is too hard when it's actually at a normal difficulty instead of being served on a plat. Now people will have to get geared if they want to raid, which should always have been a thing, and you don't need to grind raids to get geared, so you're basically complaining that you can't raid without gears cause now raiding require gears if you don't want to die. So I'm selfish cause I actually geared? I didn't get any benefit having easier raid version since I didn't gear from there in the first place, I actually geared before getting into raids even without the revamp. The fact you can't clear raids right now only means you should do the same instead of trying to leech runs/maybe drop the % extra exp gears.
Pre-revamp: 'Content is too easy no point to get better gears'
Post-revamp: "Content is too hard, I don't wanna gear up nerf please"
lol.
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Like I said, they're suppose to be newbie raids. That's how the game was originally designed and deployed. And that's how you geared up.
The revamp took place when the raids were no longer relevant in the other servers and when higher gear were around. So it didn't harm players much since they can always get better gear from other sources to do the re-vamped raids.
On our server, the raids are still relevant. Those who are not already geared up when those raids were easy are the ones affected.
Basically, it comes down to selfishness. Those who are already geared are not affected by this change and welcomes the challenge. It might even make them richer cause now they can farm things that others cannot. So long as they benefit from it, who cares about others? (And by they, I mean you.)
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They were always intended to give you an idea of how mechanics work.
With totaly being mindlessly easy that purpose was not there since you were able to ignore all mechanics (and i mean all) and facetank it more or less.
Koreans love easy mindless grind. Thats why in most korean action mmos nowadays the mobs are sandbags and you squish them while they try to do dmg so hard. (BDO as best example.. korean dmg is so laughable while eu/na decided to make them hit like trucks since thats how eu/na likes it.)
the majority WANTS a challenge.. and you can still easily solo most of them even with bad gear.. you just have to dodge more and actually do mechanics. Junk Hive and Fortress are the only ones that can be "failed" due to being too slow.. if you dont hit the mobs and let them follow you in the 4minute stage that is. Fortress is the hardest and ofc intended that way.
If there are solace runs you always find a party. If not, ask friends/guilds/randoms arround the dungeons to form a party. There are always ppl that wanna join outside of "auto queue"
A lot of ppl left due to endcontent being worse than most manic dungeons. Where is a raid - even a rookie one hard when ARK ep4 with lvl 54 is way harder than all of it. + they had very annoying parts that they removed now.
AND they have an hilarious texturebugg mob that is oneshot in bandit highway.. and best is: THE TEXTURE IS ALWAYS DIFFERENT! you go that raid only because you wanna know how he will look this round. We play "whos that pokemon" with him.. while hes clearly a hufflepuff. 
(oneshoting him the bugg will dissappear)
more ppl play again due to raids actually becoming a little fun again with the harder yet managable difficulty.
