Quote Originally Posted by Curisu View Post
Why not a third raid difficulty after savage.
Just take e1s, remove some cast bars, increase dmg and hp and place some random mechanics.
Now you have a new fight with known mechanics and a gear gated enrage.

These e1-4u (ltimate) can even have the same difficulty or the forth could be the easiest one.
As reward you can get a item to upgrade your gear with a additional materia slot.
The higher difficulty tier after Savage is basically the Ultimates. Between the existence of it and the fact that the developers like Savage and Savage-tier rewards being as “accessible” as they are, it’s unlikely they’ll ever do a third mode of the current Savage tiers. Ultimate sort of serves as the way of “revisiting” old tiers and making them ten times more challenging anyways, so it would be a little redundant.

I’d rather just see current Savage upped in terms of difficulty, bridging the gap between it and Ultimate fights (because there’s a huge spike in difficulty between E4S and TEA, just as there was with UCoB and O4S, and UwU and O8S). They could also up EX primals to bring even-numbered patch EX in line with first floor Savage, and the odd number patch EX in line with the third floor (since it’s meant to be a weapon supplement to help gearing).