Quote Originally Posted by Wegente View Post
What I'm asking for is a slight increase in difficulty, so that the more hardcore players can complete the raid in a week or so while the rest of the population can still clear before the release of the next tier.
You already got Ultimate, let other people enjoy the game without feeling the need to restrict as much content as possible from the general population.

Increase of difficulty will not happen, look at the clear rates from the recent survey, gating too much content towards hardcore will make this game end up like the many other failed MMOs ouut there.

Quote Originally Posted by Wegente View Post
That way we wouldn't have a huge population of raiders who only log in for their Savage clears on Tuesday and then log out for the rest of the week, or worse, unsub until the new patch get released, making SE lose potential money.
Right, if it's between the 5% of raiders who might take a break out of boredom, or the 95% other players who might quit out of frustration because they can't make any progress, I wonder what SE would choose.

And for reference what you described already happened, it's called Gordias. And it pretty much killed the raiding scene for a year. Hence why SE eased up a bit on difficulty so everyone could enjoy the content. They won't go bacck to that, this ship has sailed.