If your raid is taking more than 5-10minutes at most to clear trash between bosses then they are either really undergeared or just not good. I don’t think my raid takes that long on any section of trash in any of the raids this expansion.
Gearing to feel more powerful is the baseline for every aspect of this game from open world casual play all the way up to high end PVP. Yes, you want better gear to push keys but doing high keys only rewards score which is what you’re really chasing to get higher on the ladder. That’s the definition of a Challenge Mode activity. This isn’t D3 with gear that keeps scaling with the content.
You made this thread complaining about Raiders having an advantage over you in high keys since you don’t want to Raid. Capping iLevel upon entry into M+ solves that problem and wouldn’t change anything for you. The problem is your OP is misleading and intentionally combative. Your issue isn’t feeling disadvantaged by Raiders. Your issue is you just want better gear. All good, just ask for that instead.
And yes, I’m defensive about high end Raiding. I don’t have skin in the game since I stopped playing at that level but I know how hard it is to maintain a successful Mythic Raid team and I do want those players to get the best rewards for that reason alone.
It would change everything for us. If gear was capped instead of scaling up we’d hit our ceiling in 1 push week and never play the game again.
Right now we always come back every week at start of season with stronger gear and then again at end of season with bis gear to push higher keys.
Reaching ceiling fast also will make the r1 title about speed runing the same key level instead of pushing higher keys which are 2 separate things ( mdi vs great push )
What you are asking for is to completely change the content game mode I enjoy but you’re too inexperienced to even realize what you’re asking for
They do, I ran Heroic SoTFO from start to finish in 45 minutes last week. We skipped the vast majority of trash. For what we didnt skip we made maybe 1-2 pulls of trash til boss.