Thoughts on Savage Tier Rewards...

[tdb]

You are drastically exaggerating the difficulty of Savage. It's not impossible to do. Granted, Shiva/E8S is a little tricky, but that's because Light Rampant is difficult because of how the Server Tick works and screws people.

How hard is it compared to alphascapes? I spent half a year on those with a static, raiding maybe 4-6 hours a week, and only managed to clear O9S and O10S. IIRC O10S wasn't an entirely reliable clear either. We had just started on progging O11S when some interpersonal conflicts led to me leaving the static (and I suspect the entire static disbanded not long after). It seems a bit slow to me given how raid tiers are released at approximately 8-month intervals, but it's also the only time I've done savage raiding in FFXIV so I have no point of comparison.

[Colt47]

How hard is it compared to alphascapes? I spent half a year on those with a static, raiding maybe 4-6 hours a week, and only managed to clear O9S and O10S. IIRC O10S wasn't an entirely reliable clear either. We had just started on progging O11S when some interpersonal conflicts led to me leaving the static (and I suspect the entire static disbanded not long after). It seems a bit slow to me given how raid tiers are released at approximately 8-month intervals, but it's also the only time I've done savage raiding in FFXIV so I have no point of comparison.

I'm not really sure myself since this was the first time I've done any savage raiding in ages. The difficulty spike going from E7S to E8S was pretty big. FYI there is truth to what RicaRuin is saying because the final fight was heavily gated by Light rampant. There is a reason every group even after clearing the fight was basically "light rampant prog". Knockback mirror phase was more an exercise of positioning and cooldown management (also warrior gets to cheat that phase so hard.)