Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
These people already wait several months for new savage content because they finish the tiers early. One extra week is hardly going to be noticeable to someone who has already been waiting for most of the previous patch.



It's not just about the raiding itself. It's also about crafting and gathering. Unless you have a team of gatherers and crafters it takes a really long time to get everything crafted and then pentamelded. Often the people who do this are also the raiders. It's a near impossible task to complete all the gathering, crafting, pentamelding, complete normal mode and then enter savage all in the same day. This is frankly asking too much of players who do not have the luxury of having a large helpful group to sustain their activities.

Delaying savage by one week puts teams on more equal footing. As things are now some teams are ahead before they even enter the instance because they have DoH/DoL players around specifically to sustain their gear. While teams who do everything by themselves are at an automatic disadvantage for not having the luxury of being able to rely on other people to kit them out.

Sure you can say "manage your expectations/priorities" and so on. But really wouldn't the competitiveness of savage raiding be in a much better place if every participant was given a reasonable amount of time to prepare? Not just the participants lucky enough to have their own outfitting staff?
Now problem what if SE waits to release crafted and tome gear alongside savage then what? You will clear normal and do other content but still have the same problem for gearing. Do you think they want you having a full week to gear up for content that is intended to challenge you? If I was in their position I for sure would not be giving such advantage. If they delay savage which I really dont care if they do or not there is a good chance they will delay tome and crafted gear too prevent you from being geared out on patch day.