Except that would utterly screw the servers with low populations who have farmed for months, and only present a short delay for the full servers with 6-10k raiders who can farm the requirements in no time.
This can’t be recreated unless they link mats requirements to realm population.
It being late 5-7 days doesn’t really ruin anything or give anyone an advantage, servers are pretty much seperate. With this all servers get to enjoy gathering stuff for the opening.
On judgement there is ~150 raiders. Just linen alone is an average 6k farm for each of them. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of other required mats.
And an endless farm is not fun. Games are supposed to be fun. You go grind 50k mats and see how happy you are
Changing mats would be the best thing to do. so the race to the gate opening would be a real event, and not just done since already 3 month. (+ it would be funny to see everybody rage about the fact that they spent load of time farming the incorrect mats ^^)
If so, it should also be scaled for population. Actually, scaling for population should be first, then they can consider changing up or making a unique tag for items farmed post-launch of war effort.
Oh yeah of course, Scaling by server or fixing low pop server , anyway i’m horde on judgement so i know that i wont be able to do AQ for a long long long long long long long long time ( can’t even do ZG sooooooo…)