Unpopular suggestion: Make raiding (great) rewarding again.

[Nicobo]

OBJECTION!

YoshiP when you introduced Savage mode, you said it is a challenge for the sake of challenge.
Therefore no gears upgrade form it.

Please remember what you said, and now savage just becoming a "Hard mode".
if you keep this approach, later you will need to add an "Extreme Savage" mode.

[Spellbinder]

OBJECTION!

YoshiP when you introduced Savage mode, you said it is a challenge for the sake of challenge.
Therefore no gears upgrade form it.

While this is true, I'm pretty sure I recall players at the time saying they wanted rewards for going in. Whether it was a lot or a few, I don't recall, but here we are with rewards for Savage.

[Watachy]

OBJECTION!

YoshiP when you introduced Savage mode, you said it is a challenge for the sake of challenge.
Therefore no gears upgrade form it.

Please remember what you said, and now savage just becoming a "Hard mode".
if you keep this approach, later you will need to add an "Extreme Savage" mode.

Don't change anything and let the grind continue then ... wait what ?!

Raiding is something special and i understand that people are not interested in it, but actually there is no point doing it. I like to raid some Savage to face some difficult content but actually it just looks like a 15min dance around the map trying to dps a stick.
Rewards are important just for the sake of people that invest time and efforts on it.

Clearing savage just for facing a challenging content ? That argument is so hilarious, no one is going on Savage just to face this content.

[FeliAiko]

OBJECTION!

YoshiP when you introduced Savage mode, you said it is a challenge for the sake of challenge.
Therefore no gears upgrade form it.

Please remember what you said, and now savage just becoming a "Hard mode".
if you keep this approach, later you will need to add an "Extreme Savage" mode.

Second Coil Savage was nice, but only a small minority of people did it on release. Arguably you could say it was because of it sharing the same lockout as normal Second Coil, but even with the lockout removed not many people went back to it anyway. With that said, I wouldn't mind them bringing the concept back. Have the normal and hard mode raids come out as it is now, find out the common strats people used to clear the HM version, then during the 'catch up patch' you release a third version with the same core mechanics but tweaked around so that you can't just use the same strats you did in hard mode to clear it. Throw in titles, exclusive mounts/minions, yada yada.