Variance in player skill is hurting FFXIV's itemization design.

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If you can't down 4 bosses in 3 months, I have to break the news to you: Your raiders aren't savage material.
In WoW a Tier with 10+ bosses typically lasts 6 months and Mythic is pretty much the same difficulty as savage.

I have cleared every raid tier in this game 10 times before any nerf (aside from the initial nerf to twin). Please go on how I am not savage material. I might not be a server/world first raider, but I can get content down before nerfs or out gearing, so please save your asinine assumptions for someone that they will actually provoke.

I raided 3 nights a week @ 3hrs in a guild that did NOT manage to clear mythic in time to the next patch (we got around 1/3rd to half way trough). I know what it feels like.

We weren't mythic material.
Simple, objective truth and we had to accept that the patches and reward cycle moved faster than we could.

Yeah, show me which mythic raid tier had LFR giving out Mythic gear. That's what we are talking about, not weather you or I are "mythic" or "savage" material. Check you red herring detractors at the door plz.

Edit:
Come to think of it: you are actually LUCKY. In WoW, when a new patch and Raid Tier is deployed, the old one gets abandoned immediately, because it is rendered irrelevant.
Thus I have not seen many a mythic boss, because guilds immediately get busy in the new raid.
Here you have the luxury of getting a leg up on those missing 240 slots (essentially a mild encounter nerf over time by increasing your raids item level) and getting 3 additional months to shoot for a clear.

Ofc if you only raid for "them bluez" I can see how you may lose interest. To me, gear was always mainly a tool. The actual reward was to make that bastard eat dust.

I always clear content in this game before echo or nerfs. I was 239 when weeping city dropped and it was by my own volition that I was at such an ilvl. I will refer you to my earlier statement about your provocative assumptions.

And, yes, I raid for the gear, along with for the challenge, cosmetics, and story. Three of those four aspects are completely irrelevant to raiding in this game.

The story is killed in Normal mode, there is no sense of build up or progression.
Normal mode killed the appeal of aesthetics since the N and S versions of the gear look exactly the same with some of the best colors being default colors.
Gear is trivialized in this game, you don't need to raid to be in in raid equivalent gear.
The only thing is the challenge and we all saw how well SCoB savage went when challenge WAS the reward.