Can we please have lower tiers for the raid?

The reason they need lower tiers isn't strictly based on difficulty, but based on length.

I think we're all of us saying that this is okay from a difficulty standpoint, right? We like a hard fight because we feel like we're actually earning our rewards. That's cool. But the normal version of this raid is probably going to take a minimum of a month for the average guild, and that's not an exaggeration. Three days in and my guild has Greivous down to 85%. This raid isn't fun, it's frustrating and feels like a chore to log in and just get your attacks for the day done so you can go do something else. It's a punch-clock where you just hope you get lucky and do 100k damage in an attack.

Partly this is because my guild is small. There's probably 10 of us that are super-active, and another 15 that are a mixture of casual or undergeared/leveled. Right now someone reading that is rolling their eyes and shouting "GET A BETTER GUILD" at their screen, but here's the thing--You're telling me to throw my real life friends away so I can get some jpgs with a yellow border? You're saying this game should sacrifice community for gear? Yeah, that's dumb. My guild chat is filled with, at best "I wish my Greivous was as good as the raid one" and, at worst--and most frequently--"I hate this." You never want your playerbase to say that.

So, please, consider giving us a 5-star version with reduced HP and damage and a reduced reward. Hell, you can even make it cost more to start this raid. Higher cost and lesser rewards would ensure people won't do the easy version for any longer than the bare minimum to advance to the normal and difficult versions.