@suf.
Love the post-I agree...mostly!
Promotions like the one last summer are awesome...and they work, but they are obviously rare.
Notice that summer promotion was in the offseason, which allowed interested people to learn and build before an actual EE season started.
My issue isn't with making EE events that appeal to non-warriors; I agree we need to do that.
I would like to see as many EE tourneys and promos as the devs can think of created in the off season, and I would happily participate.
I think you could make EE wars with all sorts of crazy rules to give eb builds a better chance to participate without being at a disadvantage-whatever, it's the offseason, keep it casual!
This said, I would prefer the actual warring season which happens so rarely to focus on actual EE wars, instead of making up for the fact that people spent too much looking for equipment to care about building for actual pvp.