Are we getting a chaotic raid for every raid tier?

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

I completely agree with you. SE's approach to "harder" content is mind-numbingly one-dimensional.

As to a well-designed survey, that's a very good point and the sort of thing one might hope a gaming company could figure out. What a good survey definitely is not is informally polling a dozen Twitch streamers whose livelihood depends on the regular release of top-end raiding content..

I wouldn't blame the approach to how they see harder content as something we can exclusively blame Twitch streamers for. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't Japanese participation & clearrates for Savage content generally higher than western playerbases?

I don't like saying this, but if they are balancing according to what their main playerbase focus is capable of (JP), then we are possibly as a whole just getting skill issued and we are complaining into the void.

And we can't even pull the "I don't want to work another job after my 8-9 hours of work" card either because japanese work hours can go to like 12h in a day.

[Mawlzy]

I wouldn't blame the approach to how they see harder content as something we can exclusively blame Twitch streamers for. Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't Japanese participation & clearrates for Savage content generally higher than western playerbases?

I don't like saying this, but if they are balancing according to what their main playerbase focus is capable of (JP), then we are possibly as a whole just getting skill issued and we are complaining into the void.

And we can't even pull the "I don't want to work another job after my 8-9 hours of work" card either because japanese work hours can go to like 12h in a day.

Having worked in an adjacent industry I've never been convinced that JP preferences and capabilities are dominating game design. I know that is a popular complaint in NA/EU, but IME companies care about profit more than a subset of players who happen the speak the same language.