About (Savage) Raid Difficulty...

[Acheron_Abolisher]

Well, I guess I gotta disagree with the thread consensus here (God in heaven, help me). I'd actually like to see Alex Savage made easier since SE has told us time and time again that they won't be adding a third raid tier in between normal and savage. FFXIV is the only game I've ever raided in, but I feel like progression is always so slow even on fights my group learns relatively quickly. My static is pretty casual and raids only 6 hours a week. It's kind of annoying to take weeks to learn a fight and after a month and a few dozen hours of time spent, all I can say is I downed a single fight and learned some of another one. I'd really like the opportunity to move through a "medium-mode" faster and then have us try the savage fights for fun after the medium fights are completed. Since it looks like we won't get this, I'd like to see raids that can reasonably be cleared in about 10-15 hours of raid time per instance rather than about 20-30 hours per instance, which seems to be the standard post A6S nerf (people tell me A8S takes longer, I haven't gotten there myself). At my current rate of progression, I'll probably never clear A8S and I may never even see it. If we had a medium raid tier, I would be ok with this, but if we don't get this, I'd like to see the content nerfed to allow more, less serious groups to experience it.

Someone like me isn't really that interested in challenging myself to the fullest extent in a video game, but would still really like to run somewhat tricky and fun content. It seems many (and possibly most) of the really serious groups have cleared A8S already, so I don't see an issue with a general nerf (except maybe for A5S) with 3.3. Clearing content before the nerfs can still give a strong sense of achievement and exclusivity, so I believe that difficult raiding can still offer a lot in FFXIV even with content nerfed relatively quickly. I'd also be fine with achievements, titles, glamour, etc given for clearing content before planned nerfs if people are really concerned about incentives.

tl;dr: I don't have the Vince Lombardi Attitude (there is no fun, only striving and achievement) towards raiding.

*Braces for angry "You Carebear!!!" responses.*