Raiding is still new in City of Heroes.
A lot of raiders come from other games.
When I play W 0 W, I had to raid numerous hours a week, play the character my guild wanted and after certain people got gear I could attempt to bring the character I desired.
For now you have two groups of people. Individuals who bring their already +3 and convert awards and mail them to alts. Then use threads to burn xp, and create pieces to fill tiers.
Then you have individuals who want to bring their fresh 50 and complain that people have requirements. This is a game where people pay to play, so they should have some say. But if you are 50 and the trial is easier with 50+3 you are being carried in some peoples eyes. For some reason people do not want a challenge, but to burn through content.
I know that a lot of people says thing like, well blasters do great damage, and controllers are EP1k. But opinions do not override facts. I have an ice/kinetics corrupter maxed out and she can turn the tide in any fight. Not many builds, AT's can say that or contribute to a min/max team. Why would anyone turn down a sonic/radiation corrupter over lets say a super reflex/war mace tanker.
I personally play support characters so others can play whatever they like. I like to play in general. Now I have a character with a 8 billion influence build that dinged 50 yesterday and I would challenge her damage ability against any plus 3, but that is not the point.
The goal is to have fun. But what we see here is a failure of the player and not the game. I play mainly with friends and have a reputation of being a good player. If you constantly have to join PUG raids you have to take what you can get, or form the team yourself.
