Live Letter Thoughts

[KittyKarasu]

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.

[Tlamila]

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.

Thing is, there's two difficulties of criterio dungeons. While he called the first normal and the second savage, it seems the normal ones will be savage difficulty, while the savage more like ultimate difficulty. The naming is very confusing, but under those premises it makes sense that the second will require savage gear, as all ultimate content does.
The other mode is savage difficulty and maybe even harder, since you gotta kill all the bosses in a single run and without much chance of prog, plus with very limited resses and trash also being dangerous. Yoshi said, compared to current savage fights, the first boss is like 1.5, the second like 3 and the third like 4, in terms of difficulty, so it's gonna be super spicy.

I'm like you, I wanna do savage but I can't think of committing my time to other 7 people, it's too many, so I'm excited for 4men savage content.

My only let down is I thought the difficultes would equal extreme and savage, rather than directly savage and ultimate, but I know people are happy to have such difficult content too so it's ok.