Runes of Magic US / AU

edit: added some new things in bold that I realize I didn't clarify in this post

So right now from what I can see, most people don't care to run stuff on easy or normal due to them not giving certain stats (dex or str/pa for example is only found on normal last boss at a very low chance I've heard)
I feel the difficulties drops should be setup more like how things are for older instances that got easy mode added when it was first introduced (where the items dropped with different stats than normal, that were also not as good as normal)
for an example of what could be done I'll use Grotto, instead of dropping 165 stat in all difficulties with a chance of 180 orange at last boss HM instead have it like this
Easy: drop stats comparable to the normal mode of the previous instance, with a chance for a stat equivalent to what would exist in normal mode off last boss, all drops would/could come dirty (if all would, then I'd say if a normal stat drops, it should have a small chance at clean), also gear would be specific to easy mode
Normal: drop stats comparable to the hard mode of the previous instance, with a chance for a stat equivalent to what exists in hard mode off last boss, these would drop clean as they normally do, would have some potentially useful gear drops, possibly a set
Hard: this would be the same as it currently is under these circumstances

this could allow for easy to drop more useful stats, and allow normal to be worth doing (since they'd have there own tier of stats then they could be made to drop more stat/pa)

also on instance topic, it could also be nice if the design of bosses and content didn't highly discourage statting stam for dps classes
and would be nice if there were more bosses that had mechanics that kept them from being just burned down right away (like Yinajo), or at least fights designed in a way that they don't need to be burned down asap to be able to succeed

Quoted from "Cike"

been suggested many times on all points, but still, agreed and +1.

tbh I find it surprising that they keep changing how they do things a lot as time goes on or creating things they end up never reusing

Quoted from "radeon"

I think they should follow the RT model and add another level in between normal and hard modes because the difference between the two is really extreme and also distribute the pieces of sets to different levels instead of everything just being in hardmode, just like in RT. I don't believe they should give orange stats in normal modes though because there has to be some premium incentive to try hard modes.

Other things:

1. make hard modes 18 man - would help with current low population state.

2. mentos need to give good stats again - nerfing mentos was the worst decision ever made by ROM imo.

I never actually said orange stats, if you misunderstood what I meant was if normal was say 150 stat, then the last boss would have a chance to drop the 165 stat that any hard boss can drop
ya maybe bringing back the RT metal/gem difficulty could be a good thing, it's one of the kinds of things I was referencing with my last post when I mentioned stuff they created yet never reused
I haven't used mentos a ton of times yet so I have not much I can say on that part

and personally, while the idea of a bigger raid could be interesting, I think it might be best to wait and see if population goes back up cause idk how easy/hard it could be to get a group for it, and mind you if it's too hard to get a group the content will go mostly untouched like VN was back at 50 cap (due to rec size of 150 players and the fact it was buggy enough to cause a server crash at the time)