Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
No offence, but why is it any of your business what people want to do? Multiple valid reasons have been given as to why this change benefits the game, and so far there have been no valid reasons as to why it harms the game other than "OMG you don't have to do savage immediately", which you are further perpetuating.

Let me give you a hypothetical scenario that used to be a reality for me. I get home at 6pm everyday from work and would raid at 8pm on a Tuesday. What that means is that in order for my raid group to do savage, I would need to get home, immediately log onto the game, rush through normal mode before 8pm, to then do a raid nights worth of savage. If I don't then 7 other people miss out on a raid day for the week, you tell me if I have a choice in that scenario. No, we aren't trying for world first, but that doesn't make the gating any less annoying.

Before you say "Just don't raid on that Tuesday", let me remind you that you are dictating that my static miss a raid day on principle, not because of any tangible reason.
Not to mention the whole argument falls apart when it's not really just about one person, but the expectations of 8 people as a whole. Some in a static will want to pace themselves through the story, while others will pressure everyone into skipping everything to run immediately.

That said, I wonder how the people advocating for SE to keep the release schedule the same would react if SE instead decides to scrap normal modes and make Savage the standard once more, like they did back in Coil. It has the benefit of the developers not having to spend development time balancing Normal mode and making gear drops from it. It also benefits crafters because now you HAVE to use crafted gear to fill in the absence of normal raid drops.

By the same line of reasoning being used to argue against delaying Savage 1 week, it's a you problem if you can't get a team together to clear Savage to see the story. You'll get to see the story eventually, either ASAP if you find a good team, or an expansion later when you can unsync it, right?