Quote Originally Posted by Renault View Post
WoW tried this very thing and it was a hot mess. I can only say "trust me" on this one, as someone who experienced it first hand. An alternative is have the ilvl of savage gear be so powerful that players can skip the hard mode tier of the next raid and go straight into savage again.
They'd still have to clear normal mode first to unlock savage mode, though. Last I remember, the previous tier of heroic gear was enough for the next tier, just the intial gate of having to clear normal mode first to unlock heroic (the previous tier's heroic gear was only like 5 ilvls behind of the next tier's normal gear). As long as they don't repeat the current design where you needed gear from alexander normal AND eso/gordian (with a rather stingy weekly lock no less) gear to be able to finish the current savage tier.