Delaying all Savage tiers by 2 weeks

[Wyakin]

*woosh*

The sound of you completely missing the point.

Not every static, hell a lot of them don't have 5 crafters. They typically have 1 or 2.

You're in the rare and fortunate position that you have 5.

Hell the world first race Statics have an entire team that do nothing but gather/craft the whole day.

Xenosys and MrHappy both posted screens of their entire crafting team to show just what goes into getting them off to a fast start.

That’s world first raiders, are you a world first raider? Does this effect you?

As a crafter I know how long it takes to make a full set of gear for a player. An hour tops including gathering and I can also tell you that this patch everyone had all their materials pre-gathered so that reduced that time even more. So even with your 1 or 2 per team plucked out your arse average it’s still not gonna take that long to field a full team with whatever they desire. So I say again. Poor excuse to delay a raid tier, dumb reason to be a 9th man

[Kaurhz]

That’s world first raiders, are you a world first raider? Does this effect you?

As a crafter I know how long it takes to make a full set of gear for a player. An hour tops including gathering and I can also tell you that this patch everyone had all their materials pre-gathered so that reduced that time even more. So even with your 1 or 2 per team plucked out your arse average it’s still not gonna take that long to field a full team with whatever they desire. So I say again. Poor excuse to delay a raid tier, dumb reason to be a 9th man

I would think more people than you like to believe would much prefer the delay so they can focus on doing the normal modes, story, or preparation, be it gear preparation or just people having the opportunity to study the normal mode counterparts. 2 weeks is excessive, but a 1 week delay is a perfectly reasonable request. If you don't care about story to where you can skip it without consequence then good for you but a majority of people would enjoy that luxury without having to potentially compromise with a delay on their raid time, or without needing to watch it on an alt. People can actually enjoy the content without feeling obligated to race through it.

[Akava]

If you're looking to do a full week 1 clear, then you need to worry about getting full crafted penta-melded gear asap. However, if you're looking to week one clear you most likely have crafters, crafter friends/static members or the gil to buy crafted gear, at least you better because you're gonna burn through gil just getting all the melds in. Most importantly, you probably have time to play the game a lot during that first week.

If you're not looking to do a full week 1 clear, you don't need fully penta-melded crafted gear on day one. The first 2 fights can easily be cleared with whatever the previous BIS was. Hell, if you have the skill you can get away with killing the 3rd fight with the previous BIS as well, but you should have plenty of time to gear up before then.

In fact, if gil is tight, it makes sense to wait a couple of days for prices to fall if you're not crafting and gathering mats yourself. Then earn more gil afterwards before the next raid patch drops 7 months later.