Quote Originally Posted by dejavutwo View Post
If they release both on the same patch, then you still need to farm normal for gear, which is what I feel is causing players to grow tired of the fights much quicker than usual.
What's causing players to tire out faster is the constant failures. Most people are not accustomed to unrelenting difficulty and failing for it. Seriously, wiping over and over again is FAR more of a detriment to morale and willpower than anything else that might be lacking. The amount of effort someone puts in per attempt is also a factor. Source: 12 years of MMORPGs and more than half of that raiding current tiered endgame. Now that Savage is seen as the content that people should be doing, thanks mostly due to the top tier gear being there and how things have been in modern MMORPGs, having extremely hard/taxing degrees of difficult content be put in front of them like Alex Savage is causes people to forget "their place" when it comes to how to attack these sorts of things. By that, I mean folks automatically assume that just because the top raid groups can clear it that any schmuck can and is expected to instantly be able to do the same. That these world first folks don't do, think, or play any different than their peers in the raiding world.