What to do for a non HSTR guild?

DarkLord7

We recently (today in fact) paired our best members with the best of another guild in hopes to beat it. Our success or failure will be seen later this week when we have the tickets. Besides the point though...
Why can't a non HSTR guild simply exist without merging or falling apart?
Well, the developers have made a raid that completely breaks the game from arena to TW and the results of which create a huge rift between recruiting guilds that can or cannot provide the benefits of the raid. Heroic raid has so much to offer, but t1-6 have NOTHING. NOTHING. I would think that if a t5 raid takes 20 strong people, 20 casual people, and 10 low to non-participants 5 days to beat and 2+ hours apiece for the hardcore players, it should provide higher rewards than beating heroic Pit raid in 12 minutes on auto. Sure, move this immediately into HSTR channel to hide the fact that 90% of the posts on this **** forum are about that terrible raid. You make anything below HSTR obsolete, but it isn't enough. You nerf every single viable alternative. You allow paper Zombie to fester as an issue for months, and suddenly now you address it? After thousands of people invest in NS? You gave back a Zeta? Wow! INCREDIBLE. How about all of the gear and missed opportunities that were poured into the NS. HALVED THEIR DAMAGE! Many players could've invested in JTR development but no, they worked on a team that got nerfed horribly in the raid, just like JTR got nerfed for being good. Your raid is awful. It is the worst development in this game, it requires extremely specific teams that are brutal to build and sometimes lack functionality outside of the raid, especially once you finish nerfing NS. You are HURTING the non HSTR guilds and you don't even care! You make it harder and harder to beat the raid and I am so **** tired of watching guilds lose members, patience, and interest because of a terrible raid that kills the otherwise competitive nature of the game. You need to make the lower tiers take less than 5 hours per person to beat. You need to give rewards that are worth more than posting 0 damage to Pit. You need to stop nerfing every single **** team that finally helps the non top 500 guilds beat that obnoxious raid! You need to stop making an update immediately before the weekend and hiding from the forums. You need to stop trying to suppress the discussion and ignore it. Do you want us to talk about something other than HSTR? Fix it then, so we can actually enjoy the game again. So many people have quit spending or playing altogether because of how it is being run. You made a huge mistake. You've been kicking the 98% of us that play seriously and aren't able to access HSTR rewards for months and people are getting sick of it. You're going to have to release Revan, that's the only way you're going to get money out of some of these people after all of this nerfing nonsense. I will continue to post, as others do, while you continue to hope that we'll just go away. Stop making the raid worse than it already is. If you can't make it better, at least stop making it more annoying and frustrating and harmful to the otherwise strong community vibe.
Also, I did like what you did with the latest Marquee events, it showed some interesting combos for Scoundrel lineups.