This would be a true statement if he was at the zone entrance or you could otherwise bypass much of the zone. Frankly, I am giant faction and I know that to get that drop you have to kill all of NDHK except the very, very end. And by then the guild might as well finish it off, since they have gone through the gruel of getting that deep.
Incorrect. If you have not chosen a faction yet (ie gotten an aug) you simply need to spend a very short amount of time walking to the area just outside of the throne room. That is one of the many super cool benefits to be gained by waiting and killing both actually. If you get a bunch of ringers that aren't factioned it's actually incredibly fun times to walk up, punch her in the eye, and fight all of them at once.
You can bypass every single other named in the zone getting to rymaz. While I feel this should not be, and have always felt rymaz was a poor choice (which is also why everyone and their brother at the high end kills giants, easier), that does not make poor logic which basically amounts to the same thing as "for the children!!!" arguments work.
I feel it is a poor choice to have it on rymaz because of his difficulty primarily. As I've already alluded to. Dergelak however is also I feel a poor choice, as he is more difficult. Putting it on him would essentially be like having 5 bricks on one side of the scale, 2 on the other, and then throwing 10 more bricks on the side with 2.
Glib however has a similar trash clear to him. He has a gimmick as well, is possible around the same time, etc.
Only other one I can think of is the Vah quest, and that bottleneck is just one mob. Yes, the competition is brutal. But at least it is not locking down practically an entire zone.
If that is the only one you can think of, even when it comes to the Vah quest that involves taking decent loot (a completely different situation from king, whose loot is generally awful) away from lower tiered characters, I am not sure exactly which game you have been playing.
I can think of an assload in the vah alone. Let's see here. Some in Sepulcher (I forget his name, is it scribe? Think so). Earth Terror, Parcelan, Astatine, Lasanth. Hey, I'll even be nice and leave the large variety of 3 day 6 man content with nodrop gear.
Lets see what else we have here. Well relic hunters wants you to kill pretty much everything in the fucking game for starters. Dungeon Delvers asks some similar things towards the end with regard to 6man (and if we're following your logic, I'd include 6man in taking targets away from appropriately tiered characters). Hell, I'll throw in an oldie! Shield of Freeport, good luck lasanth old buddy. Silver crown faction quests also run into some possible problems here (freeport nameds actually way back used to be hit by raids fairly often, before their loot was surpassed in every way imaginable). So chalk that one up to an earlier, similar problem.
As for 6man, which I've mentioned several times already, cramming several thousand quest pieces on the same mob tends to make said mob difficult to catch up to. When said mob is involved in a higher level quest, kiss most chances of ever seeing that mobs loot goodbye for casuals. Why? Because a casual player will generally not dump even close to the amount of effort the more dedicated players will. By sheer definition. Thus it's going to get yoinked alot.
Also, again. It is not locking down the entire zone to kill rymaz. Rymaz is generally sniped. Coralsha is generally untouched, and so is Husrag. The other named are often killed by xp groups. Occasionally Husrag and Coralsha are too.
A lot of that has to do with extent. I'd like to think I'm not the only person who views [The Vah] and [Relic Hunters] as huge mistakes that have encouraged a kilobunchton of low-tier raid target stomping without concern for how it affects people in new guilds that are struggling to break into the raid game.
Couldn't agree more. I've been saying that for quite some time actually. While I wouldn't like to see things move off to fuckall hard content just because one is higher tiered when a quest comes out, it would be kind of nice to not have to monopolize the entire raid game for a month or two to get shit done. Would I do it? Sure. Have myself and others done it? Yep. Doesn't mean we're happy about it.
I also don't think it helps much to have a massive influx of super powerful alts that tagged along with ringers crushing all of this back content. Granted some amount of that is unavoidable, but jesus. It's been alooooot faster. Crushing old raid content used to be something to do mostly for gearing up alts, or for fun. Now it's alot more necessary, and I don't think that is a good thing.
Mitigating this result would help a lot with the feeling of "I guess I will just have to jump tiers and join a different guild to progress" feeling that many Tier 3-5 characters have.
Yeah, some do I'd imagine. Though I think for the most part we've improved in that regard over the years. Once you get to the area of the planes at least. Bit more selection. Before that you can pour money into making your character better (in areas other than charms, which are a hey I have nothing left to do with money thing). Which is something I think many players miss. But I digress.