Locking dyable artifact gear behind a extreme trial, good idea?

[Eldevern]

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Hardcore is not related to the time you play but the kind of content you play. Savage is by definition what we call an hardcore content. As soon as you invest time to clear them, you are part of "hardcore scene" (thought that could be confusing since people imagine sometimes it make them "pro-gamer-like". People who do hardcore content but don't have these kind of "ambition" don't necessary consider themselves as "hardcore" scene).

[Fhaerron]

Hardcore is not related to the time you play but the kind of content you play. Savage is by definition what we call an hardcore content. As soon as you invest time to clear them, you are part of "hardcore scene" (thought that could be confusing since people imagine sometimes it make them "pro-gamer-like". People who do hardcore content but don't have these kind of "ambition" don't necessary consider themselves as "hardcore" scene).

Yeah, I set my first foot in raiding back in 2007 in WoW. There's an insane big raiding community there and instead of cross world statics we have here, there you mostly have guilds formed to do the raids and there the recruitments were always with 'casual' or 'semi-casual' and then 'hardcore' for the people that invested much more hours into raiding. And I grew up with always those terms around me.
Most of my time I've been in 'semi-casual' guilds that were usually 3 hours for 3evenings / week. (which is similar to my current playtime in XIV now)
And then I've had some times in hardcore guilds where we went up to 5-6 days of raiding pretty much 'most of the day' / week.


All that in mind that's how I see myself today in XIV, I'm not good enough nor do I have enough time to be part of the 'hardcore' group but I see myself in the middle ground.