January 9, 2016 Active player census (and savage clear rates)

[Shizukya]

Alexander savage was a mistake imo, speaking from a "development time use" point of view. Especially because it created a desert in mid-core content, leaving people with nothing to do. Errors happen, that's natural. But things need to change if we want a healthier mid-core scene, because continuing down the "braindead story + absurd savage" road will only hurt the raiding scene further.

2-3 days a week is not really casual raiding. More like normal raiding scene (midcore), while your 4-5 days is pretty much hardcore raiding.

The "casual" raiders I know are going out once a week, on week ends, because they can't play for hours straight during working days, if at all.

To each their own I guess, but casual is really misused nowadays.

Oh well, for me, FCOB look harder than AS3 and AS4 with its mechanic-wise, for real, i had some kills unsync + echo, it's chaos

And, also, hardcore for me is like everyday, with 5-10hours ? I know some groups like that and i've also been hardcore for a short period doing everyday for 2-3 lockouts. That's hardcore, for me.
Most my friends are casual and can commit 2-3 days/ week for raid, then i think it depends on ppl point of view, after all. (and we all are working ^^)

[RickXRolled]

Oh well, for me, FCOB look harder than AS3 and AS4 with its mechanic-wise, for real, i had some kills unsync + echo, it's chaos

And, also, hardcore for me is like everyday, with 5-10hours ? I know some groups like that and i've also been hardcore for a short period doing everyday for 2-3 lockouts. That's hardcore, for me.
Most my friends are casual and can commit 2-3 days/ week for raid, then i think it depends on ppl point of view, after all. (and we all are working ^^)

I think most people would heavily disagree with you.

[Shizukya]

I think most people would heavily disagree with you.

As said, "for me"

[ruskie]

Oh well, for me, FCOB look harder than AS3 and AS4 with its mechanic-wise, for real, i had some kills unsync + echo, it's chaos

And, also, hardcore for me is like everyday, with 5-10hours ? I know some groups like that and i've also been hardcore for a short period doing everyday for 2-3 lockouts. That's hardcore, for me.
Most my friends are casual and can commit 2-3 days/ week for raid, then i think it depends on ppl point of view, after all. (and we all are working ^^)

Actually a lot of fights unsynced 8 man are utter chaos. Things get pushed to fast, some stuff is time and some hp sensitive etc...

T7 is a prime example - you'll have 8 adds up in like 2 minutes. All the adds at the same time...

Ifrit EX, Levi EX have that problem as well.

Some fights basically are friendly to being pushed overboard - phase skips and such - others not so much.