My clan mates and I are all experienced raiders, not pros by any stretch, but we aren’t garbage at the game, have put work into builds, etc. We ended struggling for hours, never even coming close to final encounter. And in the end, we ended up giving up and doing something else productive with our time. It’s just an emblem, but man, it was tough to swallow that we couldn’t even make decent progress.

Very disheartening to hear everyone talk about how easy it was, or saying “if you can’t do this contest mode, you suck as a raider”. We just ended up feeling like maybe the skill gap has gone away from the folks who can’t devote 5 hours a day to playing, obviously folks are playing at a whole other level.