Why? I'm just really curious why this has to be done when the content is already hard enough to force people to spend tons of hours grinding away, losing resources, and dealing with all the social issues involved with savage raiding.

Why should someone who is completing a later savage get marked as being unable to get chests from prior stages, and then be forced to drop the number of chests for everyone else in the group? This means that players who do not participate on the Tuesday of reset are never going to get a chest, because those who have done a later stage on Tuesday, but haven't gotten a book from an earlier stage, will now join groups from earlier stages and drop their max loot.

No offense, but this makes doing savage a worthless piece of crap. You're clearing it for the loot drops and the possible mount at the end of it. This system negates 90% of the reason someone even does the content. The first freaking savage run is just the jewelry and belt.

"Because it will force people to go back and complete the first stages..." = Yeah... on Tuesday reset IF they feel like it. They probably will go do whatever they are progging on and forget about the earlier stuff.