Quote Originally Posted by AxlStream View Post
I ain't interested in your delusions either. Self proclaimed top tier players want to challenge themselves. Savage is a bare minimum for that pretending to be at that level.
It's not a delusion at all.

People play for different things. I don't raid, for example, though I don't consider myself a top-tier player in FF XIV. I *was* a top tier player back in DAoC though. I was a world first at getting the 2nd BM epic. I was part of one of only 4 groups that ever downed the Hibernian dragon *in the world.* I was one of the first, if not the first, to figure out the optimal BM build and brought a class from the lowest DPS to the highest DPS. I did parse (though we did it by hand back then) and played with stats and builds and specs and ran variables about reactionaries and positional. I was regularly ranked at number 1 in damage across all servers in PvP.

So am I top tier in FF XIV? Nope. My physical disability limits me a bit... But, in the game I played for years and years, raid after raid to be the first to get that epic, which required me to go through that raid over 100 times. Of which I played the least popular class but was ranked number 1 on the leader boards (again, once other people started cracking it the population numbers rose sharply) I absolutely was top tier.

And ya know what?

I stopped raiding after the 2nd expansion cane out. My heart wasn't in it anymore. It was too much effort, took too much time, and just wasn't fun.

Am I capable of being a top tier FF XIV player? Eh. With technology making up for my disability I have no doubt that I could. It really isn't hard. Build the muscle memory, get down your rotation, get an instinctive grasp on refresh times for your CD so you don't need to think about it, then pay attention to mechanics and don't stand in the fire.

After all, for the most part those skills transfer...

Oddly, in time I'm going to do that anyway. Heck I'm already pulling aggro off of other tanks most of the time in dungeons/trials. I've solo'ed and duo'ed bosses more than once at this point.

Eventually I'm going to get all that muscle memory down, heck I already am, but I'm not going to ever do savages.

Why?

I just don't want to. It's not worth it to me. It's not fun.

I'd rather spend my time RPing with friends, decorating a house, playing mahjong in the Gold Saucer.

That has no bearing on my skill as a player. It is just where my interests lie.

Where I take offense to the statement is that you're equating a player's skill level with a player's activity.

You can be the best martial artist in the world and never once step foot into a tournament.

You can be the best FF XIV player in the world and never touch a Savage.

That's the place I take issue with your statement.