Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Well, that's the thing. "Carrying," like other words, are subjectively used. Regardless of whether it's because people are not as skilled or as knowledgeable of the fight or any other reason, the result is the same: that some people will have to compensate for others.

If you want to use another word for it, feel free.
It's not a simple semantic difference - you are deliberately using a negatively charged term and trying to twist it into fitting something Yoshida said that doesn't have anything to do with it. Simply stating the fact that when you're 1/24 of the people your personal responsibility is lower than when you're 1/4 or 1/8 doesn't mean anyone has to or is intended to "carry" anyone else, it just means you're a smaller part of the equation. There are tons of people who feel less pressure in joining an alliance raid, even if they perform amazingly and aren't being carried in the slightest (hence the use of "approachable" in the Q/A and not "easier").

Furthermore, people making mistakes doesn't mean they're being carried. You can easily have a healer in an alliance raid keeping everyone alive and doing more damage than other players miss a cue and die, then almost instantly be raised by someone else and continue "topping the charts" so to speak. If that same healer makes the same mistake in a light party then it's probably going to be a wipe. They're not being carried in either case; the only difference is that they have 1/6 the amount of personal responsibility.

If you read again what I said, I'm making the connection with what he is saying here with what he's said in the past.
And I'm saying that your connection is bunk. If anything, saying that alliance raids are more approachable than savage raids because of the difference in the number of players is the exact opposite of saying it's hard to make difficult content for lower numbers of people - the lower personal responsibility would mean it's easier to make the content harder because it's easier to recover from mistakes.

I don't think you're a troll or anything, because your responses seem to be in earnest, but it looks a lot like you just wanted to have a discussion on "carrying" and found a recent quote you thought you could somehow twist to fit that discussion. I, and several other people, are pointing out that they are completely different things