Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Originally Posted by Velhart

True the game has been more towards a midcore set up. The difference is we have seen what the developers are capable of when making Savage. Before my mindset was that this is what they are capable of in terms of making hard content. Then Savage for 2nd Coil came around and it took it do a level that hardcore did enjoy. It's only real set back was it's lack of rewards that killed the motivation. I remember people beating it and getting much satisfaction out of it, especially Savage Turn 7. It would be great to see this return for them, but it looks like that is not a thing anymore.
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After my raid group had finished farming FCoB, we'd move onto SCoB Savage as it was something for us to tackle until 3.0 dropped. Although the latter is definitely not something you'd want in the forefront for the raiding community (like what we see right now with savage, and it's led to proably an unrecoverable state from server transfers). Even if it was not our ideal content, it was something for us to tackle because it was an escalating slope of difficulty even if you were over geared for it, if only because of the mechanic checks behind the fights. Although personally, SCoB is my least favorite raid because of the mechanics behind it, but I'm just following what my raid group wants to do before 3.0 launched.