So I have been doing Alexander savage, and am on floor 3 now. One thing I am noticing among not only my own raid group, by my friend's as well is that players are burning out incredibly fast compared to previous raid tiers. I usually love progressing through the difficult fights and it is the primary reason I play MMOs, but even I am feeling the burnout. The main reason for me is that in order to gear up to progress in savage I had to farm normal. By the time I was doing the fight in savage, I had grown tired of the fight.

My suggestion to prevent players from burning out this quickly is to reverse the order in which 24 mans and 8 man Normal mode is released. This way there is a lot more variety in the fights while you are gearing up for savage. Normal mode then becomes available later so that everyone can do all the story stuff.