I was super excited for the new content they are giving us, especially these new Criterion dungeons. I want to preface this by saying that pugging savage raids has always been a nightmare for me and just downright depressing, a part of raiding I love is the connection I made with static members and having the consistent support of the same people every week.

The reason I was super excited was because finally we are getting high difficulty content that won't be 8 man groups. I work a lot and my schedule is very unpredictable so having a static that I can run savage content with is quite impossible for me, having 7 other people try to match up with my annoying and constantly changing schedule and have it not interfere with their schedules is ridiculous.

However, having 4 man groups and only having to worry about 3 other people makes it A LOT easier in terms of planning or even doing sudden runs without much warning. I was so excited because I haven't been able to raid in a static in years and I always loved raiding a lot.

But then during the live letter Yoshi P mentions having the new raid tier gear to be strong enough to do the Savage Criterion Dungeons and my heart sank. Finally I was going to be able to do savage content without it being locked behind 7 other people only to find out that it is in fact still locked behind grouping with 7 other people. The dungeon clearly has a lot of similarities to BA and DR Savage and so I was hoping that the gear would either not matter or have a different kind of stats scaling like with Bozja.

Please, on the very off chance that the Dev team sees this comment I beg you to please consider changing this in the future to make it more accessible to those of us who can't schedule 8 man groups for savage raids.