There's emblems you can only get from doing the challenges in each raid (9 total). For the revamped weekly raids, that's the main reason to do the raids now is the challenge. The logic is to search for people that have the emblem because it proves they know the encounter and the challenge to that encounter. It's a way to glance and know that you have someone that knows what they are doing, instead of winding up with liars that drag the team down. Honestly, it's still not a surefire way of gauging experience, but that's what people are asking for to join some groups. When people say "must have emblem" they usually are talking about say like, the Atheon challenge emblem, or the Aksis challenge emblem. At the very least, it shows you had to have been with a group that completed the challenge to get said emblem. Some groups are dicks and will kick people that don't have them. The OP is wearing the emblem that means you have ALL 9 challenge emblems. But because he didn't wear the [i]specific[/i] Atheon emblem (or whichever one it was) they are kicking him. Which is stupid, regardless of what you think of requirements anyway. Because It means they set a requirement that essentially attempts to gauge experience in that challenge, then kicked a guy that showed an emblem that means he not only has that emblem, but all of them.

Cause eltists have been will be and are. [spoiler]idiots [/spoiler]