Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Well, the thing is that Savage Raiding is literally only one type of content that utilizes full Tome/Normal gear. Not everyone is a raider and thus interested in doing Savage raiding.

There is nothing else that will utilize said gear.

Even worse is there's literally nothing that utilizes full Savage gear. Obtaining the gear simply means you can now... AFK in Limsa with slightly more stats than other people.

Though, the next issue would be implementing things that aren't Savage but still have longevity... Since, for example, you could in theory add another 4 Raid encounters for both Normal and Savage with min ilevel of 480 and 500 respectively that offered no loot but then people would simply run it once and be done with it... (I suppose you could let it drop gear for alts? Since that's always a complaint, that weekly lockouts on Raid loot and tomestones means gearing up alts is impossible if you're spending said lockouts on your main job)

The same could be said about adding in 480/500 min ilevel dungeons/trials...

Really, the best I can think of would be Eureka. Only without its absurd ilevel sync. So that progressing your gear, actually upgrades your performance. But even then, there's still the issue of "What reward do you put there to make people actually care about doing it?"... I suppose the Relic? A shiny glam given that generally they're only BiS for like the last patch of an expansion...
The way it currently works is better gear helps with current content and can help with next content as well. You don't need savage gear if you're not doing savage content, but getting augmented tomestone gear (which is almost equivalent to savage gear) still helps with regular content even if you don't need the gear to clear the content.

On the whole, I would disagree with the need for persistent progression. Since we have vertical progression, we're already on that gear treadmill, so there's no need to do it persistently. It's a good thing if you're able to say you're done gearing and then can reap the benefit of that gear for the rest of the patch and maybe even the next patch. Relic is a nice alternative for that gearing aspect.