My suggestion for 4.0 raiding, coming from a seasoned raider.

[Nephisto]

You almost sound very valid here, except, in the entirety of ARR (2.0 to 2.55), casuals had no problem playing the game with Coil being out of reach for 98% of the player base without paying someone to get them the clears.

I'm one of those 98%, so I'm really happy with the Alex Normal. If 98% of the players who pay are casuals, I understand SE to satisfy them, and not the 2% hardcore raiders. You can skip the cutscenes in Normal mode and wait in Savage to watch it...

[Phoenicia]

I'm one of those 98%, so I'm really happy with the Alex Normal. If 98% of the players who pay are casuals, I understand SE to satisfy them, and not the 2% hardcore raiders. You can skip the cutscenes in Normal mode and wait in Savage to watch it...

That's the thing.. Savage doesn't even have cutscenes. Also, how would you feel if I tell you this: "You can wait 3.5 months before you get to enter story mode. As a casual, you don't need the gear upgrades anyways since it doesn't matter outside of savage." That didn't sound nice, did it?

I'm not asking to "deny" you normal mode or its gear though. But you shouldn't be handed over the same thing that people spend a lot of effort and time getting. Effort vs reward is very important. And the reward of "same gear skin but dyable" is really, really, cheap.

[Delorean]

to be honest i was kind of surprised to see the wow lfr raid difficulty model here, where before we had things like crystal labirinth and world of darkness etc.

raiding is always going to take a hit when there is no reason to do it. to lfr players, being in lfr is an end to a means - but raiding, and I mean actual raiding, is just wasting their time doing something they maybe enjoy all 15 minutes of.

I mean personally I could care less about the story. I really don't appreciate a story scene at all in a multiplayer game unless it was made like the creators wanted us to watch it.

I'm one of those 98%, so I'm really happy with the Alex Normal. If 98% of the players who pay are casuals, I understand SE to satisfy them, and not the 2% hardcore raiders. You can skip the cutscenes in Normal mode and wait in Savage to watch it...

if the point was a dartboard and your post was a dart... well let's just say it didn't hit the board. at all. in fact, it probably hit a person, their cat, and the fine china.

All anyone is saying is more content is better content. World of Warcraft has like 5 levels of difficulty for every raid and now nobody gives a shit about raiding. If you beat alex on it's tuning intended for all players, are you even interested in engaging him on a higher difficulty level? More than likely, no. But if you have the Unearthed Chamber of Allag or whatever to do AND Alexander, you will probably TRY to check both of them out. Especially if it has a cool item in it that you want.