Please consider changing the role of normal mode Alexander in future patches

[KaijinRhada]

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I understand what you're saying, but any serious raid group is going to look for anything and everything that will give them an edge on new content. If that edge is farming more gear from various raids, raid difficulties and instances, then that's the way it goes. Mileage and the amount of gear will vary from one group to another as it will also depend on how long a group will spend on any given part of content, but it would be outright foolish to not milk any upper hand you have.

I can sympathize with the OP and others in that situation, but I also agree on the existence of a normal mode (if only it were harder). That said, I have come from a background of various levels of difficulty per tier, and a number of raids to do at various points (WoW). Having done that in the past, I can probably say my burnout threshold is pretty damn high considering how many times on various difficulties and roster sizes I ran during that time, but it really helped when there was more than one raid to do at a given time.

A question to keep in mind is whether normal mode would flourish without the gear incentive. If I may ask, would it be better if the layout and challenges in Savage mode were sufficiently (but then what is "sufficient?") different from Normal? Perhaps side stories, a different path, etc? Maybe if it dropped other things alongside of gear? Or, one of the things I feel as being a major suspect, what if there were two raids instead of one?

I understand you're not particularly happy with the current model, but what proposals would you have to keep the community happy where many will now expect a normal mode? I'm not being facetious or snarky mind you, I'm just bringing up some thoughts.