Translations (JP to English)

[Sephrick]

Striving towards optimization is /fun/
Dilly-dallying through the game with average performance is not

It can be fun to a point, but gets out of hand when things start getting personal over a 3% difference in damage. Kind of like the XI Monk forums on ZAM circa 2005-2010.

There's nothing wrong with solving the riddles of the game like str/attack/dmg relationships, but as with all things on the Internet there are those incapable of not taking things too far.

It stops being fun when people exclude you from an event because you don't have the best items, which many times were the rewards from said event.

[Rydin]

It can be fun to a point, but gets out of hand when things start getting personal over a 3% difference in damage. Kind of like the XI Monk forums on ZAM circa 2005-2010.

There's nothing wrong with solving the riddles of the game like str/attack/dmg relationships, but as with all things on the Internet there are those incapable of not taking things too far.

It stops being fun when people exclude you from an event because you don't have the best items, which many times were the rewards from said event.

Yea but everyone who would be that "hardcore" over that type of information is already using a chat log damage parser