There has been some negativity regarding farming recently, so going to offer what I believe to be a good suggestion.
Introduce a new challenging instance. By challenging, I mean something that can't be completed by low-level toons and that moves us a bit away from the only viable farming option involving a lot of low level alts.
Would love to see a standard instance format with challenging mobs (for example, a harder version of shrine mobs) that have a fair chance to drop EC. About 100-200 mobs with a 30-50% chance of dropping 1 EC. After the mobs, a boss that actually requires a party with a tank and EP to complete. This boss could drop something like some damas or ST, and shouldn't be solo'able.
This suggestion isn't to make current farming options obsolete, but to introduce an alternative for high-level players without negatively affecting the economy (shrine/NS would still be more viable for direct EC farm, and dailies/events would still give easier ST/Dama gain).
Thoughts?