As far as tangible loot rewards go, I would say that before legendary insights were as common as they are now (15 spread out over 4 wings), the main reason keeping players coming back was trying to get enough to form a set of legendary armor. I have personally witnessed lots of players who stopped raiding once they got envoy's herald title or one weight class of legendary armor. The legendary insight time-gate was the only thing that kept them raiding. Only the ones who were truly into raiding and self-improvement continue to do it every week after that. Why not use this to incentivise easy mode raids? Give them a 'Legendary Insight fragment' per boss clear per week, that merges 5 fragments to give an actual Legendary insight(3 LI if they full clear easy mode wing 1 to 4). The resources required to make the armor would then take a legendary amount of time to get just like the WvW version at the very least. They will then either:repeat easy mode raids for 50 weeks at the least to get the required resourcesorget bored of the harsh time-gate and start doing normal mode raidsorquit the game mode on their own terms I am on the fence on whether they should be able to get parts of the envoy collection done from easy mode raids though; I don't really place too much prestige on owning the armor itself and many (not all) of the collection items are one-off stuff that they can get just from buying raids but I understand some people are pretty adamant about locking the armor behind 'competency'.
Missing Diviner Stats on Mist Pendant, Mist Band , Mist Talisman (purchased from the Golem BUY 2046- PFR)
