Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
GOOD.

Because stuff like savage is best left to players that WANT the challenge for its own sake and not to be made mandatory because it nets ridiculous levels of character power.
Why do you feel this way? I never understood this feeling of "mandatory" in a video game. I do think that proper incentives and rewards are vital to the enjoyment of these activities though - this is based off fairly simple psychological concepts (the stuff you lean in PSYC 100 etc.)
If you want that, WoW raiding should be right up your alley.
It is right up my alley. Recently started raiding there and realized it is significantly superior to raiding here. Have since quit my FFXIV static (still sub in) and raid there now.


That's a problematic you will find in virtually EVERY MMO that employs vertical progression.
New Raid tier -> old stuff rendered weak and worthless.
Yes and no, it somewhat depends on the patch frequency that we have here, which isn't a bad thing. However, gear that you obtain raiding doesn't even get you started on the next raid tier. For example, you could have had full 210 raid gear from Gordias, but as soon as midas dropped, crafting + midas NM + seph ex were better and you needed that before going into Midas Savage. It would have been nicer if the gordian savage gear got you started in Midas Savage - for example.

That said, power of gear isn't a huge issue, but the staleness of it. There is very little difference between getting different gear pieces of equivalent level (and not that big of difference between ilvls really). It'd be nice if there were different gear builds you could create, or set bonuses etc.