Difficulty of normal content.

[SirShady]

Even on very easy mode it still took me several tries to clear. I think that hinders players more, who cant progress on MSQ due to a stupid solo-instance they cant clear or have anyone help them with. I felt this way about some solo instances in previous expansions too, though.

Solo instances are not hard for the majority of players. It's mostly avoiding orange circles and that's about it. You can get hit by several and get passively healed too. I don't know of anyone who has been "hindered" by solo instances this expansion. If you're dying several times on "very easy" you need to reevaluate what you're doing.

As for the raids, the 4th raid is the only one my group kept consistently wiping on. I think if some of the damage was tuned down a tiny bit it would help a lot, because it was not fun when our group started fighting each other over DPS not being able to stay alive. Could have just been our group, I guess. I feel with some more time it should only become more doable as people get more experience trying to clear them. Regardless, it is optional content and the community as a whole seems to want more of a challenge. I am too new as a player, joining last year, to say if its actually too hard.

Your group was fighting over dying in normal content? Sounds like you're playing with a bunch of crazies. I wouldn't recommend playing with them if they're treating normal mode content like anything serious. And no, they don't need to turn down the damage. The majority of healers have been asking to hit their heal buttons more often and are doing just fine.

I was hoping to try out savage for the first time with these raids, but I don't think I will be able to try out savage now just because of how difficult it already was for me.

Why would you even think about doing savage content? Clearly if you didn't enjoy the difficulty of normal content then you're not going to enjoy the difficulty of savage. That's the whole point of doing savage. Don't spend months of your life learning fights and dying over and over if you're already having a rough time with normal content. Not all content is made for everyone and that's ok.