I would love to play an alt job in savage/criterion, however I am unmotivated because my main job's item level is too high. I highly suggest we rework the loot time gate(perhaps lower book reqs) over the course of the savage tier. By the time I can actually get an alt geared (raiding 2 days a week), people are lest interested in running the savage raid tier. I feel like if you have cleared a fight, why harshly limit loot from the players who have cleared?

This poses an even bigger issue when you consider that my main is BLM, and the melds are so much different for smn and redm, it doesn't feel good to play them in BLM bis. This could also be solved by adding "meld loadouts" where you can save & swap between 2 different meld profiles.

A final side note, the Criterion rewards are very underwhelming, same with the savage version. Please provide something more unique and cool, or gear near savage item levels.