This is soooo  next level for Raid   and appreciate it ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Love  +1

Hard Mode Faction Wars is long overdue.  Happy they are adding it.

Think they will be sintranos (last few stages) level of difficulty? 

Maybe, but difficult content is (usually) better than no content.

Just get 5 sets of stun gear with 400 spd, 500 acc and res :P

relevant note: the existing faction wars area bonuses will apply to hard faction wars as well

Do we have a rough time frame on when hard fw will be added?

like 5 hours from now? or 5 months?

Mostly I just wanna know if whenever it does go live if we'll have specific notice and not waste keys on stage 20 or 21 and then have stage 22+ open up an hour later

At most it'll only be a time sink the first time you clear it, after that it'll be the same as factions wars is now.

Feels soon based on this weekend's progressive but hopefully we'll get clarity soon. I can ask but I suspect the answer will be along the lines of "when it gets here" :)

The way things have been going, I suspect that the upper Hard Mode levels will not be "set it and forget it".

With Chimera-like trials and increasing difficulty, they may be lookling for us to do manual runs, which will either be a time-sink or a skip.

Confirmed it's very much a "we'll get there when we get there" situation. I do think we're likely to get ample warning so as not to waste keys, etc.