Imo, the system might benefit more from having a very rare piece of armor drop from the raid and having the raids give you marks based on performance as a team to allow you to buy raid gear. This gives people something to cry about if someone gets something from RNG, but you can still work towards 30. A second idea might be to introduce pvp type armor and pve type armor. It'd make it easier to tell if someone got to level 30 just through IB or through endless raid. I understand that it would exclude a lot of people from hard raid, but people shouldn't be running a hard raid without first having run the normal raid till they know it like the back of their hands. Imo