Yoshida did not make this game pay-to-win. The players did. *NOT a cash shop thread*

[Krr]

Any decent static would help the replacement or member catch up to start progressing.

Any static that's recruiting from outside of an exclusive social clique is going to demand experience in the current content they're doing. It doesn't matter what you think a 'decent' static is, or what your semi-casual friends FC does, that's the common practice.

Half-competent FCOB statics don't do T9 carries. They expect you to have done T9, with gil or otherwise. They expect you to have been PF practicing T10, T11, and possibly even T12, and if they're on T13, they'll scoop up someone who was with another static doing T13, not you. This isn't necessarily because 'T9 makes you good' but because 'doing our content and having seen our content makes us less likely to destabilize trying to reteach someone'.

Do you think Collision is out there getting world first by recruiting players still stuck on T5? Hell naw.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment, but it doesn't match the existing reality of how the game works.

[Sapphic]

Any static that's recruiting from outside of an exclusive social clique is going to demand experience in the current content they're doing. It doesn't matter what you think a 'decent' static is, or what your semi-casual friends FC does, that's the common practice.

And you don't think they would notice if someone pays to get carried through content that they don't know the content?

Random person joins a raid group demanding clear experience of turn 9. Random person paid to get carried through t9, in fact suicided in the wall to not wipe the party due to inexperience. As you know, if you have no clue for placing golem meteors, wipe inc.
The statics you are talking about will recruit in house from known and proven players first, not randoms in PF so, honestly that argument is moot. The ones in PF are not the top 1% that push for world first.
The world first raid FCs have synergy between players from constant practice and playing together, that takes time to develop. Why do you think it is not always the same FC which gets world firsts in MMOs? Takes time, practice and dedication to learning to a certain level of efficiency to even have a chance of joining the top 1% statics, having to pay for wins proves you don't. The members are expected to and do go that extra mile. Something the majority would never to attain to.

From a lot of experience in DF (I last used it on my alt to get some experience healing turn 5 and 6) the ones that fail most on mechanics are teh ones to play the blame game the hardest instead of looking at their own mistakes their fragile ego automatically places the blame on anyone else except themselves (also they are usually the ones to ragequit first XD ). Players that never improve that can go on to pay for wins. So they never learn and improve because they did not go through the learning and self improvement of their ability to play that learning and clearing the legit way gives.

FCoB was cleared so fast because 90% of the mechanics are the same as what we have dealt with before. Biggest hurdle was the gear check which was mitigated with fully melded ilvl 110 gear.