Quote Originally Posted by RicaRuin View Post
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.