Quote Originally Posted by Pondera View Post
Forgive me for my salt, but I'm starting to believe that SE is padding the Savage/Extreme raid tier so that it takes 3 months at least to bash through it all, and no one complains about content drought. I mean, there is difficulty, and I'm fine with it. I'd consider myself a challenge gamer, but my FC actually has people quitting the raid team for the sake of their mental health. So, when SE talks about clear rewards for Ultimate coil of Bahamut, I find that incredibly optimistic.
That is how content padding works yes. Anima grind is another one, they are useful tools for developers of an MMO and helps prevent content starvation.

The raid tiers this time have been designed very well. Ultimate essentially fills the spot of Gordias except that now you can reasonably clear the raid without it. For midcore players, they may spend the raid cycle trying to clear omega and succeed, but for the hardcore raiders, they now have an additional challenge to keep them logging in.