Difficulty format for Normal and Savage will remain in 4.0

[Brian_]

"Team jump rope": It is possible to continue/recover when one falls, but that's very rare to happen!

It's not rare at all. You are either lying or completely oblivious to the truth. You can mess up a lot and still clear.

Your Example doesn't hit the point because AS5-AS7 is not designed for a full iLvL240 party

What point? The only point that's relevant is that Midas Savage is still our end-game raid and SE has given us access to i240 gear to help clear it. That's reality.

[Yukiko]

It's not rare at all. You are either lying or completely oblivious to the truth. You can mess up a lot and still clear.

wtf you are talking?
Have you never done team rope jumping?
Either the one who falls rolls out or gets trampled from the others, if not from the others the one gets hit from the rope!
One way is that the 2 who swing the rope doing an extra long swing to give more time for rolling out or to slow down the swing a bit if possible...
Well, that's not something you can do inexperienced, in most of the times you just stop to prevent hurting anyone!
Depending how far your team made it the others jumping will be interrupted from their timing (you sync by music) and mostly fall too then!

Its rare enough to recover that way, but look at competitions where you have the "real deal" with jumping in and out when using more than 4 ropes and 6 men...
Youtube-Video German Team Rope Skipping Tournament
Youtube-Video Chinese Circus


@Karsten:
I wonder where we talked about "your" static, i thought we were talking in general about the playerbase and content

(..) So its "forgiving" if you are in the top percentage of world first players? How convienient for them, but the majority of us are not going to be in that percentile. (..)

[KarstenS]

I wonder where we talked about "your" static, i thought we were talking in general about the playerbase and content

It was about the question: "is it possible to recover?"

We were able to recover even with less than min iLvl. We are no world/datacenter/server first group or close to them.

This is the proof for the answer being: Yes.

[Yukiko]

(..) We are no world/datacenter/server first group or close to them. (..)

Thats where you are wrong, from the viewpoint of "Kallera" as example you ARE near server first kill groups!
You said yourself "we reach AS8 each week"... that makes your group one of the very few who actually can REACH that level...
Sure, you can lower the viepoint when saying you just compare with all groups who reach AS8, then your group isnt near the top because you havnt cleard yet...

Its like saying you are at rank 250 of 5000 (one server)
Or if you say you are at rank 250 of 500 (those who can reach AS8)
While compared with the server you are on top ranks, its is a bit different when comparing with the others