This is a petition to make the next raid, Tier 5 have certain requirements.
First, the number 1 problem with Funcom making T5 is simple. You need to SELL Rise of the Godslayer to new people. After all, why would they buy Godslayer if they can skip all that and go straight to Cetriss or T5 or whatever it's going to be called. Granted, only a small fraction of the current population (10% perhaps?) has even done T4. I would still like to see a smaller but BRUTALLY DIFFICULT Tier 5 come along.
+ First, and foremost. Funcom, you can create both T5 and actually boost sales of Godslayer (and thus subs, since you need a sub to enter Khitai). Here's how. Tier 5 can converge with the new crafting system. And the only loot that drops from T5 are items,tempering agents, magical meteorite ore, call it whatever you like that you can use to combine (in the new crafting system) with your T4 items to create even more powerful T5 item.
So, say you get the "chestguard of the fearless" (T4 heavy armor) and then in T5 you acquire the "ore of the fallen star" from the final Raid Boss, with these items and say annealing agent and a blacksmith's workshop (which both costs 100 gold each to use once). You can create the "Breastplate of Righteous Might" (T5 heavy armor). This way, T4 (and all of Khitai) will be requirement.
+ Make T5 BRUTALLY HARD. I mean INSANE. FULLY T4 toons just dying in 3 shots to trash. Bosses with 85% mitigation to magic, reflective damage against melee magic attacks, CC's and stuns everywhere. Just make it VERY VERY FRUSTRATING to complete.
+ Force it to have 2 of each class. A lot of guilds are doing raids where some classes...eh that ..um may be redundant or perhaps not entirely necessary (to put it nicely) are being short changed. Make sure that every portion of the raid boss or trash has a specific job for a specific class. So that it just is not possible to continue without at least 1 of that class being present.
+ Give it something other then 1 room 1 raid boss. Would like to see fights where it's just a flood of trash mobs, wave after wave coming in. Or a time trial or a puzzle and no boss etc.
Thanks.