A3S nerfs incoming

[Yukiko]

Why to bother beating thordan for the stupid gear check if you need to learn the mechanic patterns in savage anyway?
You do not learn anything from thordan that can help in AS4, you just get a better weapon for the gearcheck in there...
Most players i know are upgrading their weekly eso while throwing their heads against the savage mechanics to learn them, even knowing they dont have the gear to beat it...

Alex savage was very bad for the community, i have never seen so many hatred just because DPS, not even coil was ever that bad.
Square Enix have to stop with the lockouts, it does not make any sense that players are not allowed to help others once cleared...
It is good that they try to stop winselling, but those restrictions are hitting the weak and not the selling players!

Edit:

(..) I have never in my life seen so many raid groups break apart and so many people quit raiding and even quit the game because they feel the raiding is just plain not fun

Of course I've also been playing MMO's so long that I can clearly remember when enrage timers were a very soft thing only put in place to prevent goofy tactics like kiting a boss through an entire zone while a single archer plunks away for an hour and a half.
The way they've transitioned into a hard time limit on every single encounter just seems like the laziest design choice possible

Even wildstar, the game advertised towards the 1% of the 1% super hardcore, didn't have stupidly tight enrage timers on bosses if they even had them at all

^this
The hardest content does not come from making tight timers or enrage the whole fight and let everyone preform "perfect" to unforgiving mechanics, its the "challenge" that attracts players and not the "impossibility"...
To overcome the challenge is fun and not to try something impossible (impossible does not mean unbeatable)... Climbing a wall is fun, not breaking through it with your head...