Please release nest Normal and Savage raids at the same time.

[Nutz]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I never got even the slightest hint that SE intended to release the second or third waves of Alexander HM and Savage separately. The delay this time around, or at least a lot of it, was because of the expansion and not wanting people to feel rushed to complete it (potentially missing out on at least 1 if not multiple weeks of lock outs).

Maybe they'll release HM at 3.2 and Savage at 3.21 next time, but I think this would be a mistake. For 3.0 people needed to gain 10 levels and roughly 40 ilvls to catch up to Alexander HM (really dislike the lowest tier of things being labeled 'Hard' btw), never mind the massive amount of story that took place and just getting acclimated to 3.0. For 3.2, people will be geared up, likely in full i210, while Alexander HM will probably only require i180-i190 (almost certainly not higher level gear than the previous iteration) and Savage shouldn't require anything more than i200-i210 (again, no more than the previous tier) and people will be ready to start immediately.

No, I think the tiered roll out was entirely to do with the expansion and won't be repeated in further patches since the only purpose it could serve is if they want Alexander Savage to require better gear than you can obtain in the previous version of Alexander Savage (or upgraded 'capped' tome gear), thus requiring a few repeated completions of Alexander HM + new tome gear even to get in. Those sort of strict ilvl requirements haven't been seen before (usually they're fairly loose) so a delayed roll out shouldn't serve any purpose at all.

[StrejdaTom]

No, I think the tiered roll out was entirely to do with the expansion and won't be repeated in further patches since the only purpose it could serve is if they want Alexander Savage to require better gear than you can obtain in the previous version of Alexander Savage (or upgraded 'capped' tome gear), thus requiring a few repeated completions of Alexander HM + new tome gear even to get in. Those sort of strict ilvl requirements haven't been seen before (usually they're fairly loose) so a delayed roll out shouldn't serve any purpose at all.

I hope so.

Also I feel that some people here made a good point and that I stated my suggestion completely wrong.
I intended to come with a solution that would make us able to do Savage Alex without farming Normal Alex, but the thing I suggested would leave Savage Alex easily outgearable which is not what I intended.

I think that Savage Alex is OK difficulty wise, I am still on A4S without a clear but there are around 4 - 5 more months untill next Alex is out so this is completely fine, the only thing I am disappointed about is that I had to do Normal Alex to be able to clear Savage Alex.

I am not exactly sure what could solve this? Maybe if there was one more gear set at the same iLevel as Normal Alexander, maybe from crafts (unmeldable) or something like that. Some possibility to gear other way than from Alex Normal that wouldn't take longer than Alex Normal though.

[Nutz]

I hope so...

I guess the one thing that I expect will remain the same, but doesn't necessarily have to, is that the next phase of Alexander HM will probably need to be completed at least once to enter Alexander Savage. Presumably, however, raiders interested in Savage should be able to clear those 4 instances and move into Savage straight away (or however long it takes them to clear HM). Inevitably some people will pick up gear upgrades since Alex2 HM will be an upgrade over Alex1 Savage, but those upgrades shouldn't be needed to enter Savage (though for completion I'm sure you'll hit a wall at some point without dipping back into NM/ getting tome gear).