I have no idea how you expect people to do this twice a year. Either one of two things should happen here.
The first option is simple. Make the gains bigger. 10 to 15 jumps in power all the way up to max. Doing pinnacle ops hundreds of times is tedious and absolutely boring.
The second option is to kill the grind in 6 months. Let all the gear from the current year have all the bonuses and gear power with no reset until next expansion.
Gonna add divides video cause. It is relevant.
https://youtu.be/brq_yOjn7NE?si=bTp9aRhwGzy8lDzA
Edit: For those saying "you have 6 months." No we don't. The power resets in 6 months. So the longer I take to get to max power the more I will be punished for waiting. If I hit max a week before the reset I'm back to 0 and little t5s to show for it. THIS is the problem with the system itself. It actively punishes those who wait or play casually. If power sharing was enabled for loot. Then I could still raid and play the game super chill. I could just team up with players that want to grind everytime. But they hate that idea it seems.
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Yea the power grind is really bad. I went from 200 to 250 in 24+ hours and that's with playing for about 18 hours. And having to run the same things over and over again gets boring really fast, just to be able to increase my power level to do the same activities as i was doing before. The whole system is insanely slow and badly organized. Not only that but I'll have do it again next season... if i decide to come back to this game, and as of right now it's making me wanna stop playing it completely because it's not even worth the grind.