I agree with the op on a couple of his complaints.

One being that the DPS check is quite high, and one can only imagine how much worse this is going to get as the months fly by and the harder content comes out. Will they expect players to have 100% perfect rotations 6 months from now? There is a huge gap between the easy content ( A1-4 ) and the hard content ( AS1-4 ). Normal Alex being far too easy, and savage being far too demanding for most, so clearly what we need is something in the middle that also rewards worth while items ( I doubt very much the new 24man raid will count ). I would also like to see them taking it down a notch in terms of dps checks, and put in some better mechanics, because lets face it, a dps check is a LAZY mechanic, and they've been relying upon it far too much in this game. There is very little to do in this game as is, and it's sad that most people wont be able to really do much savage, leaving them very little content to do.