Please don't delay Savage Raid Releases

[ForteNightshade]

Guess we're going to have to disagree here. Especially since you're then by not delaying crafted you're essentially killing a large portion of the content for a LOT of crafters, which is the day 1 rush and all the preparation which leads up to it. At this point, the whole idea of preparation becomes null since not many people really have any real need for the gear until the following week, and with that, you're looking at quite heavily crashing the markets before the gear even becomes useful. Sure, it's a perk, but a perk that comes at the expense of killing content for others.

As a long time omni-crafter, this is simply inaccurate. People buy gear because they want upgrades. I've made more off casual players selling the highest ilvl gear than raiders. How do I know? Because raiders typically aren't buying it week 5, 6,7, 10 and 11 yet casual players will. For the same reason people bother capping tomes each week. Plenty like upgrades even if it's technically unnecessary, and even more beneficial they wait.

From the preparation side of the argument. I have both crafted for an entire static (my own), spoken with several others and am in discords with high level crafters. Most, especially in the hardcore environment, are begging for a delay. It isn't lost content, it's a stress relief because now we don't have to trip ourselves trying to gather a plethora of different materials, new rotations, potential remelding and etc. Seriously, you have the likes of Ashe10 asking for a delay despite being one of the most prolific crafters in the game with billions of gil. On the more cynical side, Shadowbringers already put a huge dent in crafting content due to how easy most of it is. A week delay for raid preparation won't have even a fraction of as much an impact in terms of profit as this expansion's changes did.

When you couple all the above with a week's delay allowing those crafters to actually tackle all the other content, including story. We're typically the ones asking for the delay alongside raiders.