Can we please delay Savage?

[Barraind]

a week is more than enough time for any team to get all their stuff sorted

The "stuff" that keeps being brought up as what needs to be sorted clocks in at roughly 10 minutes of time, maybe 15 to 20 if you read slowly.

We arent talking about days worth of prep, its literally the length of commercial breaks in your regularly scheduled programming.

Hell, I'll even get on board with a 2 hour delay for those people who want to do that stuff minute 1 (the ONLY people this issue impacts) to get their normal raids and cutscenes in, then they can bring the servers down to patch in ex trials, crafted stuff, and savage raids.

Itll let me sleep in until a normal time on even-numbered patch days.

[Lastelli]

The "stuff" that keeps being brought up as what needs to be sorted clocks in at roughly 10 minutes of time, maybe 15 to 20 if you read slowly.

That's not really accurate. sHC groups that aim for a first week clear need to:

1) clear the normal mode raid, which takes around 1 hour if you chose to skip all cutscenes;
2) need a few hours to gather/buy things to craft the new gear and meld it (the first pieces of gear appear on the MB a couple of hours after the maintenance is over). This doesn't apply to more HC groups since they usually have their army of crafters and gatherers that do the work for them while they clear the first two turns with the previous BiS;
3) clear and farm the new ex primal for weapons. This takes 1-2 hours. These weapons are pretty much required for a week 1 clear unless your party is god-tier and can get away with crafted pentamelded weapons.

So you see, at the very least it takes several hours of preparations. For sHC groups, this is very vexing, especially if some party members can't take days off work and just want to follow a normal evening raid schedule.

Now, this wouldn't be nearly as bad if at least points 1 and 3 were removed, which is exactly what happens for the first savage tier. Let crafted gear come with savage, but at least let us enjoy the MSQ and the NM raid story instead of forcing us to skip all text if we want to play at a semi-competitive level.