Quote Originally Posted by Renault View Post
So you're a casual, as you put it, and that's fine. You're right, you guys make up the majority of the playerbase, pay your $15 a month and yadda yadda. So let me ask you: if you shouldn't be forced to do difficult raid content to see the story of the raid tier, why should I, as a "hardcore" player, have to farm content that was made specifically for casuals to be able to do my hardcore content? Not sure of your opinion on this second point I have here, but tons of people in my FC (which is all casual players except for myself) are not even doing Alexander normal passed their 1st clear because they will just get better loot from Eso gear anyway. So would it really change much for you guys if it was just i180, glamourable gear? I'd like to hear your opinion!
You shouldn't be, hence why I stated in a post in another thread that Savage should be balanced around the best gear available at the time, and if Savage and NM were released at the same time that would be upgraded law... or at least the 1st, 2nd, and maybe 3rd floor.

Quote Originally Posted by Renault View Post
Gonna respectfully disagree with you on this one, and here's why:

What if a progression savage raider -wants- to do Alexander normal to gear their alt or help their friends? While I still stand by my opinion that normal mode, if it's going to be on the same level of difficulty as story mode content, should not drop gear, I don't think forcing players to do one or the other is a good solution.
If you wanted to do it to help a friend friend, don't loot anything. That would keep your loot unrestricted for both modes should you choose to do one or the other. As for gearing your alts, does that not contradict your idea of them not dropping gear at all? I'd suggest the secondary tomes. As others have already addressed, wouldn't you still run Alexander normal mode to help you out with savage even if it weren't released until 2-4 weeks after Savage? Most groups won't have it cleared until a month, two, or three from this point. In a months time after Savage and Eso are out they'd have two pieces of Eso and maybe a few Savage pieces. They'd still be running normal mode for the loot to help out their savage progression.