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    NekoGenesis's Avatar
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    Neko Genesis
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    Completely disagree with the premise of the thread. Normal mode was made so that the majority of the playerbase can finish the story without being subjected to Savage-levels of mechanical/gear expectations.

    If you want to push yourself to get better at your class and to play in a more serious environment you have Savage which does (or at least should should have in theory) have more mechanics and more checks than their normal mode counterpart. Whether Alex Savage in particular as a raid fulfills this is another matter entirely. I came in after Heavensward got released, and when I did Coil as compared to AS, Coil was much more epic - the storyline, the music, the fights, everything. However, this does not mean that the current system of having Normal/Savage with Alex Savage having only more phat l00tz and possibly the shittiest storyline I've seen in any game (not just MMO) is bad. It just means that Alexander as a raid failed to meet expectations and definitely pales in comparison to FCoB.

    The only suggestion that I might make is that Normal/Savage are released at the same time. Most other games release the easier and harder versions of the same raid simultaneously (Dragon Nest - Normal Mode/Hell Mode and TERA Normal Mode and Hard Mode). This would alleviate the burnout felt by some that they had to grind out Normal to acquire the necessary gear to do Savage (which is in essence a harder reiteration of Normal, so after the burnout of grinding Normal, doing the same fight but harder is definitely not as satisfying or rewarding). Of course this would require fine tuning such that if it were to have happened in HW, Alex N/S should have been doable with practice at ilvl180, and gotten easier to do when fully geared with ilvl 190 from Alex Normal (which would have still been gated by weekly lockouts).
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    Last edited by NekoGenesis; 09-28-2015 at 09:24 AM.

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    StrejdaTom's Avatar
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    T'aretha Tyaka
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    Quote Originally Posted by NekoGenesis View Post
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    Many people here have suggested the same thing, problem is, that the thread is cluttered by rant and will never reach devs.
    Making another suggestion thread just with this thing and no rant would probably help.. hopefully someone will have nerves for that one day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NekoGenesis View Post
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    I still don't like that version as at the time, 180 was the best gear you could have had going in, so Normal would still be part of a raider's progression path, just done concurrently in addition to raiding much like ESO. If it was released at the same time, then I think it should have had i180 gear. Otherwise, doing both at the same time would probably end up being even worse than what we have now.
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    Last edited by dejavutwo; 09-28-2015 at 09:33 AM.
    Questing is like participating in an Old Spice Commercial - Talk to me, talk to him, talk to me, talk to him, Now Talk To Me...Sadly, you are not done, back to him, look there, its that mob I never liked, back to me, back to him...I'm in the Waking Sands.