NO MORE ALEXANDER(NM)!

[FaizeD]

The dyeable gear was exactly what people were crying for with Dreadwyrm.

They wanted dyeable versions.

Well, with Alexander Savage you get... dyeable versions of the exact same armor you get in the zone. Just like they were crying they wanted out of Savage Coil.

Seriously?

Except they could have made Alex Normal gear dye-able upfront and then created a new set for Savage that was also dye-able.

Seriously?

[Nekodar]

Except they could have made Alex Normal gear dye-able upfront and then created a new set for Savage that was also dye-able.

Seriously?

So they would design a unique set for the hardcore raiders that just want to stroke the e-peen or sell runs to players with too much gil...

[FaizeD]

So they would design a unique set for the hardcore raiders that just want to stroke the e-peen or sell runs to players with too much gil...

Yes, welcome to MMOs. You raid, you get gear. You sit around in your FC house all day and only do DREX, you don't. Life's tough, hang in there.

[Nekodar]

Yes, welcome to MMOs. You raid, you get gear. You sit around in your FC house all day and only do DREX, you don't. Life's tough, hang in there.

Way to miss the point.
Dev resources are better used designing gear that a majority of the player base is able to obtain rather than gear that only a small portion of the player base can get.

[FaizeD]

Way to miss the point.
Dev resources are better used designing gear that a majority of the player base is able to obtain rather than gear that only a small portion of the player base can get.

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Current raiding gear becomes easily obtainable every cycle patch, it doesnt mysteriously disappear from the servers. This season's hardcore raid is next season's midcore glamour hunt. It is a far better investment of resources than any of the other casual themepark garbage that quickly become wastelands, like Gold Saucer.

Heaven forbid casuals wont have all the shinies at the exact same time as people who raid. Oh my stars and garters, what is the world coming to when one is rewarded for accomplishing something in a game! I hate crafting, I should be able to get red scrips sent to me in the mail every week, because I mean it would be so unfair to have content that only so few people can do. It's totes discrimination. I have a job. I can't craft. My fingers hurt when I craft. Crafting is against my personal beliefs. Where are my red scrips pls.

[Aomine1992]

*Yawn* another I hate the casuals being catered too thread...zzzzzzzz

[Kinseykinz]

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Current raiding gear becomes easily obtainable every cycle patch, it doesnt mysteriously disappear from the servers. This season's hardcore raid is next season's midcore glamour hunt. It is a far better investment of resources than any of the other casual themepark garbage that quickly become wastelands, like Gold Saucer.

Heaven forbid casuals wont have all the shinies at the exact same time as people who raid. Oh my stars and garters, what is the world coming to when one is rewarded for accomplishing something in a game! I hate crafting, I should be able to get red scrips sent to me in the mail every week, because I mean it would be so unfair to have content that only so few people can do. It's totes discrimination. I have a job. I can't craft. My fingers hurt when I craft. Crafting is against my personal beliefs. Where are my red scrips pls.

Here's the thing, SE now has NO reason to 'echo' buff Alex Savage. Not only that, they could actually implement an ilvl cap to it to keep it at a certain challenge level (you know, avoiding the BC2 Savage title farm people can now do b/c of unsync/higher gear level scores etc).
So while you might think 'all the more reason for special shinies', and I'm not really disagreeing with you on that point. (While I personally think the actual Alex Savage raid is boring, gear looking similar to Normal doesn't bother me), SE now has the option of keeping Savage, well, Savage...because normal mode already gives people 'story/general' access to it. No need for nerfs/echo's/uncapped ilvls etc once new content is added.

Now, this DOES also mean, anyone who has the items from Alex Savage...even 6 months down the road, has some bragging rights....as again, no reason to nerf it. It can stay hard, challenging and not easily accessible. Heck, there's really no reason to even bother putting it in the DF (kinda like Savage Mode BC2).

But you get a title (visual) and a unique mount (visual) for clearing the raid. That should be enough visual epeen. Most people glam their gears anyway....and judging from how few people I see in Normal Mode gears, not like this gear style was that popular anyway Which might be your bigger issue, you just don't like the style. Period.