The farming of Durch T1 was according to the devs working as intended when it came out - until they decided it was farming. The lair raids now are not challenging on T1 and since first age symbols drop without having to do full clears of the raid of course they're farmed. Five to ten minutes without locks? But let's face it, when they took the Durch farms away it didn't encourage us to do harder content. I've been clearing BG T2C a couple times a weekend but the loot sucks. Last weekend we voted to drink instead of go back for more fail chests from BG.
Because we want loot, we farm. Because Turbine puts the loot at ridiculously low levels, we farm those. Effort vs. reward. And I've seen the T2 Erebor set for minstrels.... I am underwhelmed. If that is the only reason to do T2 then for some classes it's not an incentive. Cosmetically it isn't even different than the T1 set and it's black and dull looking.
So we either a) have easy-mode farms to run for good loot (yes, I have a 1st age and a couple teals picked up in 5 runs); b) we have challenging content to run with rewards that more casual players can't get but still want; or c) they stop the farms and we are all bored to tears and quit logging on. To those of you who say we should raid hard content just for the challenge, that works only once. And without a carrot to get me to do something harder, again it goes back to effort vs. reward.
Minnie looking for farm raid, pst...
I'd explain it to you, but I'm all out of Puppets and Crayons.
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