Here is another thing that REALLY annoys me.
Why is it that all the "hardcore" players whine about how easy easy mode is?
In order to whine about how easy something is you have to have actually done it a few times. I think its a mistake to make easy mode an accomplishment at all. They really should just let hardcore players walk right into hard mode content because then they don't really deserve the right to whine about easy mode because they should have never even bothered with it in the first place.
Hardcore players should be forced to only do hard modes. The guilds should require that. That is not what happens, so its quite obvious the people that bitch most about the system still benefit greatly from it.