Omega and future raid concerns

[Renato]

So apparently SE will be wrapping up the Omega raid storyline in th3 4.4 update. This has been one of my least favorite raids not in the sense that it's just not interesting because it's cool to see old bosses and listen to updated themes...although I do feel that the tournament-like storyline is a bit lazy.

So apparently SE will be wrapping up the Omega raid storyline in th3 4.4 update. This has been one of my least favorite raids not in the sense that it's just not interesting because it's cool to see old bosses and listen to updated themes...although I do feel that the tournament-like storyline is a bit lazy.

My real gripe and concern with this basically comes from the fact that fights are hurdled by Normal and Savage.

From what I understand, the savage and ultimate are a very small percentage of FFXIV. A lot of people don't have time to invest in finding a dedicated static, let alone find learning groups to get through a fight. The people who do world firsts seem to devote HOURS into learning a fight to the point that it takes days, sometimes weeks to finish. WHY would they lock raid fights behind something like this? Exdeath's 2nd form is Savage only, Kefka's 2nd Form is Savage only...some people will never get to experience that because they don't do that kind of content. And for the people who do, more power to you. I think it's awesome and watching Ultimate was great but there is no reason to do this when it wasn't done previously with Alexander or Bahamut.

Just include the fights in Normal and have a Savage mode like before. Hopefully this isn't something SE plans on continuing with. I don't see why it's so difficult to make challenging content that isn't too demanding along the line of Shinryu or Nidhogg which I thought were great when they first came out.