How about we change the "dps check" a little?

[Nedkel]

With this bolded part you somehow managed to make your suggestion worse... seriously? Now you're putting the burden for making up for subpar DPS on the healers who are suddenly faced with "You better heal this up quickly or its a wipe after all because the dps in your group was to bad, better make up for it!"
No... just no.

You get the reward for being good enough at the overall fight, that means following the mechanics while dishing out enough damage. What you are asking for is a participation reward, because the difficulty of Savage fights is a combination of more complexe mechanics and higher dps-requirement. If you cant bring that to the table, stay away from it.

I also suggest that this damage to be mitigatable with other things as well.
Tanks LB or various tank abilities may come in place as essential along with healers ability to heal it all.

What i am asking for is not a participation reward, you wont get through it if you are not good enough anyway.
Its increasing the amount of rewards per week for good players, and let the lesser ones get something too instead of failing it and never coming back, because he/she is stuck at savage raiding and cant progress with gear anymore, making savage raiding more accessible for PuGs or groups of random mediocore people who want to do it. Those rewards are just a gear used on pve, why is everyone losing their mind if someone worse than them get a chance to get it too? It is fair enough that someone good will be able to get it twice a week, and someone worse get a chance to get it one, both parties progress, people who have no clue to play the game will not progress anyway.

This is the point of my suggestion, to make it more rewarding for good ones, and possible to make anything out of it for average ones.