Changes to Savage with 6.2

[MrSigy]

It's also amusing you say non-existent dps checks when both E8s & E12s (E8s especially) had relatively tight ones to the point most world racers were struggling on E8s's one. The first tier is always underbalanced due to no EX weapons and wanting people to get used to changes in their jobs on new expansion, then the 2nd & 3rd tiers up the ante. And if you're not talking about week 1 kills/world racers then this whole tome thing is irrelevant, since it's the only set of groups that this would affect the most in terms of making things easier.

So ill break it up since you are mixing up a few things

- first tier of a expansion is always underbalanced, I disagree the jobs aren't balanced, same way in e4s ast and nin were gutted and not up to par with mnk and drg. It's not the fight which are underbalanced it's the jobs that aren't balanced towards each other performance. this tier it would be pld versus other tanks, white mage being behind on healers, mnk being ahead of other jobs while ninja was behind again, smn for casters and mch for ranged jobs.

- your A point: there was always a decision you had to make for yourself as a static do we take time to get ex weapons or do we just ignore it. All the time you would ignore it even in e8s, e12s. But you had to make a choice. Now there is no choice you farm the ex weapons beforehand to go into savage as there is nothing else to do. By this point you have already +1 wpndmg and 9 vit then in the past.

- your B point: Sorry I don't remember the last time I actually bought a tome weapon for clearing savage content. You don't need it so I never bothered with it. Anyway you feed your dps gear as much as possible anyway so I don't see where this one was going.
But just assume it's more vitality anyway so again making dropping the dmg down. atleast the healing side of things, I haven't felt a challenge as a healer in well forever even in DRU, it's just oh you have mitigation congratulation you pass. A real hard healing check with continual damage, honestly I don't remember one maybe titan e4s and then only the last phase. In DRU I felt more like oh right they've made akh morns edge go faster then the internal gcd of lily or panheima so you every hit doesn't trigger but then on the shockwave when saving estinien they completedly ignored that part.

Each raid team can also get an i630 tome weapon before p8s if the tomes come out a week early.

You make a good point here aswell.

If tomestone and crafting gear aren't released the same day as savage we will be officially in unknown territory. So, maybe they slightly increased week one savage difficulty too?.

This game in savage just seems to be getting easier and easier over time.