Quote Originally Posted by rsod View Post
Endgame content (savages especially) is too difficult and therefore too stressful.
Completion of savages requires multi-hour wiping for a many weeks or even some months, as well as pretty much perfecting rotation, and rotations in FFXIV are very difficult on their own.
This isn't particularly fun, and not everyone is as perfect. Not every human is entitled with enough reaction. Trying for hours every day just to get your bis equipment does not feels right and good.
Moreover, such difficulty leads to difficutly to find people to practice and run dungeons with. If you wasn't lucky to find a group at the beginning of the content - you're pretty much out of it for good.
Something needs to be done about that. Either savage difficulty relaxed a bit, or another source of same bis equipment is needed. Let it be 2 times slower to get than savage's loot, but let it be. For these people, who can't do savages due to time issues, or due to lack of proper reaction and skills, or due to inability to find a group.

I'm sorry for any possible mistakes in text, I'm not native English speaker and my English knowledge is mediocre.
The only thing I can suggest is to not sweat the small stuff. Only a small number of the population tackle and clear savage when it's relevant content and the vast majority come back at a later date with better gear or even unsynced, to get it cleared, myself included. I've never done Savages when relevant.

The best thing to do, if you feel you are too late to the party, is to find a group of people, who are looking for someone to join them, that corresponds with your time and personal commitments, that are willing to have a good time and not get stressed with the fails that will 100% happen and prepare to tackle the next set of savages.

Better still, if you can get a group that is willing to run older/more recent content as a group, just to get a gaming relationship working and move onto the next stuff when it arrives then happy days.

Also remember, for each "happy static" you see on youtube (for example), there are dozens who fall apart because someone doesn't progress as fast as they want and people who don't know each other are rarely supportive.

As for BiS, it will just be replaced in 3-6 months anyway, so again, don't sweat the small stuff