Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
Everybody thought it would be like Extreme because Savage was above it. I think they would've actually used the term if they meant it to be that kind of jump in difficulty.

I think they left armor out for a couple of reasons. This is something new they're trying and they didn't want to accidentally pull people out of the savage tier to farm this instead. If they let you trade tokens for something like savage books, they would most likely lock down the content for weekly clears.
I don't see how adding 620 or even 625 gear to Criterion Dungeons would be that much of an issue. It would never replace savage as long as it doesn't reward 630 gear with perfect substats, worst case you would maybe use a ring from it on tanks and healers.

It would just be another option to gear alt jobs to a reasonable level or even main jobs for people who don't do savage in the first place.