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.
Why was it a mess in WoW? I played, but almost never did any raiding. I remember folks complaining but I don't recall the exact problems with it, though from what little I can recall, I was always under the impression that the biggest problems with the shared lockouts in WoW had to do with one mode being a 25-man Raid and the other being a 10-man, which led guilds to end up with identity crises. That generally wouldn't really be the case in FFXIV since both raid sizes would still be the same (and many statics aren't even FC-affiliated).