5 Foot Step wrote on Jan 2
nd, 2018 at 10:22am:
Also, it came out at the same time as Racial Reincarnation, so people decided to do that instead of running it just to run it,...especially since RSO came out the next update after reaper mode came out, when everyone was converging agreement on the heroic game to be the optimal path for grinding reaper xp.
This.
I don't understand the Devs logic... other than laziness.
If they had made the raid Heroic, people would have run the shit out of it.
It's relatively open design with sparse mob spawns would have been a good school-room for newer players or people with crappy gear if it had been in a Heroic setting.
Especially since a lot of the raid loot is designed to "dove-tail" with the loot from the 2 quests, which aren't even required for flagging, which is retarded.
Then
maybe people would have tried to grind out some of those matching items for their Heroic counterpoints from the 2 "flagging" quests.
As it stands, the best items in the 2 quests are the Heroic armours, which are still arguably better than Ravenloft gear, and maybe the Hand-axe and some of the accessories.
For Epic, I was with the masses... Not worth the grief.
Too long, too boring, too much preparation required to succeed for lousy drop rates on gear you can easily live without.