Small change to endgame to help.

[Taei]

I know there are a lot of angry posts about how there's a lack of endgame and lockouts etc. Here's just a quick suggestion that can help out a bit and it shouldn't require that much more effort to do.

Release or use one of the primals as an equivalent gear farm as the raids, somewhere between A1-3S. Still make A4S the highest gear upgrade, but just give us another primal as another option for gearing up that is free of lockouts, somewhat difficult and doesn't require a static to do.

[Greyfrost]

Are you talking about Ravana Extreme? Sounds a lot like Ravana Extreme to me, minus the gears, since RavEx only drops weapon, and it's the third best in-game, damage-wise.

Somewhat difficult with randoms, and doesn't require a static to clear.

[Taei]

Please read the 2nd paragraph.

[zcrash970]

If it's going to drop equal gear to that of savage, it should be as hard as savage or be released the patch after the current top raid is released.

[ElHeggunte]

How would this help exactly? If it had no lockouts, but had gear equivalent or close to raids, no one would do the raids. All you would be doing is trading complaints about the lockout for complaints about droprates or being bored because people geared up too fast using your idea. Making the gear mid-ranged is fine I guess, but we already have plenty of that and people already fuss up and down about it.

[MentheusDreyar]

If it's going to drop equal gear to that of savage, it should be as hard as savage or be released the patch after the current top raid is released.

^ This

Not to mention primals are meant to be accessible to everyone but hardly anyone can seem to handle their current difficulty with any form of ease. Every "farm" i join is a bunch of headless chickens who have no clue, for bismarck and ravana.

If its any harder than current EX's (which it has to be, and approaching savage difficulty) you'll want to be running it with some kind of a static anyway to have any kind of chance of even doing it, which is kinda of against your idea of it.

All this will do is make it easier for raider's to get gear to complete the raids. It will accomplish pretty much nothing...

If you want raid equivalent gear, raid for it! Don't make us raider's efforts a waste because you're to lazy to attempt the current endgame.

[ShaneDawn]

You don't need the best gear if you don't do raids... even going going in Esoterics is an overkill anywhere else except Savage Alex atm. What would be the point of this? I beat Bis Ex at around i149 and Rav Ex at i159, just for example.

A vast minority of the playerbase is doing Alex Savage, and only a very small fragment of those people are good enough to clear A4S atm. You would just be screwing over 99% of the raiders by giving "free equivalent loot" elsewhere.

I think this is overall just a bad idea. Want more gear progression? Go do Savage Alex like the rest of us.

[Itseotle]

Wait a second. Release a primal that's as hard as savage that drops gear equal to savage? Isn't that what A1s-A4s already are; over exaggerated primal fights. Calling Alexander a "raid" is laughable. Four completely segregated boss fights in static circular arena style combat areas that you just press a button and port to. .. sounds just like a trial.

[Aomine1992]

Lol you have other options *cough eso gear* you don't have to do savage a lot of ppl aren't even interested in Alex savage let alone are they even doing it...because others are raiding doesn't mean you have too and with the primals now I rather SE try again before releasing hard content with more tight dps checks

[Natashio]

Wait a second.Calling Alexander a "raid" is laughable. Four completely segregated boss fights in static circular arena style combat areas that you just press a button and port to. .. sounds just like a trial.

Reasons I don't bother with this game's end game. They're just mini games to me.