The "So what happened to X?" Thread

[Fendred]

At least the savage coil suggestion is easy to answer. They probably didn't see any reason to implement the savage mode for final coil because so few people were doing the other ones. Player turn out for those must have been absolutely abysmal if savage Alexander numbers are any indication. Not to mention the fact savage coil is much harder than savage Alexander.

[Velox]

Not to mention the fact savage coil is much harder than savage Alexander.

The naming convention can be confusing for some players because they both have "Savage" in the title, but they were developed with different goals at the time. Savage 2nd coil was an experiment. The extreme of the extreme that still utilized the existing mechanics and could still be cleared in a reasonable amount of time. Regular Coil was the end-game raid, tuned to be an end-game raid. Savage Coil went above and beyond. Alexander Normal is not the end-game raid, it's a mid-game raid. Alexander Savage is turned to be an end-game raid on-par with Regular Coil. Savage Coil was something special and I doubt we will get something that difficult again in the future (unless it gave some really rare item that people valued enough to put in the work for it).

[Kosmos992k]

At least the savage coil suggestion is easy to answer. They probably didn't see any reason to implement the savage mode for final coil because so few people were doing the other ones. Player turn out for those must have been absolutely abysmal if savage Alexander numbers are any indication. Not to mention the fact savage coil is much harder than savage Alexander.

Savage coil, IIRC doesn't give any better drops for the effort, so despite demanding a stiffer challenge, less elite raiders would rather farm Alex Normal.