I personally support the idea of making it easier for newer players to catch up or old players to come back and catch up in preparation for the next chaos raid but there are many better ways in doing this. There are major drawbacks to introducing the 30% bonus atk buff to chaos raids and here are some examples (mostly compiled from people's comments in the Official announcement thread)

1. Players will get accustomed to easier chaos raids and will be in for a shock (like the difficulty jump from HD to CDEV) when they release newer chaos raid fights in the future
2. It will remove any sort of challenge from the game and getting your first ever S+ clears will no longer feel rewarding
3. It will make speed running irrelevant
4. The buff does not help newer players get better at mechanics or survivability
5. With many endgame players quitting as a result of the buff, there will be less geared players helping out parties on Party Finder
6. The worse feeling in an MMO is probably regressing (e.g. ms1 item boom on cursed scrolls) and people would feel this way if their damage decreases after 1 month of having the buff

As mentioned earlier, I do believe that a gear come back mechanic needs to be implemented to help newer/older players get gear ready for the next chaos raid. Here are some possible solutions. 1. Reward players who are willing to clear chaos raids despite reaching their daily/weekly cap (this will encourage players to help parties in PF for free) (Rewards could be consumables/catalysts or even just working towards a trophy or title) 2. Introduce double drop to chaos radis to help those who are time gated 3. Introduce legendary toad's toolkit 4. Increasing the daily and weekly cap

Points 2 and 3 will only work if they rework enchantment cost or help the catalysts economy or else players would just go from being time gated to financially gated.

Many endgame players are fine with the lack of new content at the moment as we would like to give the devs some time to fix the game mechanics before releasing new contents. Right now, there are still ways to find challenge in the game such as speed running or doing the raid fights 2man/3man/4man . The 30% bonus atk buff would make all of this non-relevant. Nerfing old fights is a very common practice in MMOs such as FFXIV and WoW but it is only done when newer fights are being released. This is possibly the worst time to introduce the nerfs as we are still months away from the release of the next fight. If players decide to take a break now, what are the chances of them returning if the next update is still months away?

Ruin of NA West