Quote Originally Posted by viewtyjoe View Post
The FFXIV team still received complaints about this, and have stated that the next tier of Savage will be more akin to Final Coil.
Thats not fully correct. They are balancing the last tier of Alexander around the following issue:

Regarding Midas, Let's just say the level cap was still 50 and you could use the level 50 rotations. I think the clear rates would have been way way higher. After checking the data and logs, we noticed "Understanding the mechanics,judging,dodging and maintaining the level 60 rotations on top of that" is what created the enormous gap between players. There are a lot of buffs you need to manage and maintain and not only that, but the phase transitions or enemy mechanics disturb that rotation. This led to requiring players to flexibly judging in certain situations. Back in binding coil of Bahamut, there were some harsh mechanics, but the difference in rotations directly slashed the gap in difficulty. It's too late to change the rotations during the 3.x series so we'll lower the difficulty of the final tier of Alexander instead.
In a more recent interwiew Yoshida did state the same and he also clarified, that Savage is meant to be hardcore content and not to be for everyone. So the difficult for final Alexander is more like a workaround, which will get changed back in 4.0 with the next raid.