Raider to Non-Raider: an exhibition on thoughts and misconceptions

[Spellbinder]

In ARR, many players were "good enough" to participate in and clear the game's primary endgame raid content. In HW, a significant number of those players are no longer "good enough," and that means fewer players are able to partake in the primary endgame content.

You say many, but only the developers have the numbers to make that decision. In the end, they made Alexander (the regular one) easier, to make sure more people could clear the primary raid.

In the 2.x series, Binding Coil of Bahamut, Second Coil of Bahamut, and Final Coil of Bahamut was the primary raid. Savage was icing on the cake.

This is just my opinion, but Alexander: Gordias (the regular one) is still the primary raid. Savage is the icing on the cake. The only difference this time is they added rewards. But because they chose to add rewards, and because the normal Alexander: Gordias is easier, players are glossing over it. The only thing we care about now are the shinies in Savage, even though I don't believe the players who were "good enough" for normal Coil were intended to clear all four floors of Alexander savage.

I mentioned it in one of the other myriad threads on this subject, but the level of difficulty of Savage should not have been a surprise...if you can read Japanese. But there was a translation of the information on Reddit, and yet it was still ignored, and the Western audience is suddenly blindsided by the fact that Savage is still Savage just like in 2.x.

I see all these fingers pointing at Savage as the problem, when I think the normal Alexander: Gordias is where we should be looking. If players weren't able to gloss over it so easily, if it offered even a modicum of the difficulty that 2.x raids had, we wouldn't be having this conversation.