They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[VelKallor]

The overarching feeling I get from a lot of this community's...opinions...is something I can approximate with "thank god I'm not some filthy tryhard NERD who crunches numbers and tries to improve at some ridiculous nolife video game. Now excuse me while I spend seven hours a day in the same video game picking out my glamour."

Id say that the bottom line here is that the mentality has shifted since the days of nolifes in WOW hunched over a keyboard.

Times, and people have changed.

I was asked why i dont do savage or ex etc..my answer was simple. Im retired. Ive been there done that in earlier video games, done up to mythic in a few instances. These days, my time is my own to do with as I please.

i dont do schedules, dont do "be here at xyz time regularly", and in basic terms, I play for fun and really little else.

i have, in fact, been invited to no less than THREE statics, to which i have politely deciined. When it comes to "efficiency", Ive been there and done that as well. My old professions were both in the banking / fiunance sector and before that in the nursing / medical field. When you walk into work and have an exam dropped on your desk "have this done in one hour, passmark is 100%", and its a LAW exam, thats when you get tested.

Know what happened to anyone who failed? You were immediately suspended without pay. Id say THAT has a greater magnitude of importance, wouldnt you agree?

Whether you want to admit it or not, this is just a game. Little else. No more. its a game. Games are for enjoyment, not to be treated as a second job with 'checks for efficiency" "prompt attendance", "Job performance" etc.

Thats work, not play.

Thats more stress than many need, as you are very well aware, there is enough stress and grief already without adding to that load..,.and in all truth, people have more than enough to deal with as it is.

The last two years are TESTAMENT to that fact.

One of the more famous WOW guilds has just called it a day, Midwinter. Ive actually MET one of their members, she was a cool and very generous person with an evil sense of humour. What you dont seem to grasp is that in this time at least, people have developed a sense of perspective, more to the point of what is important. what no longer matters. or no longer needs to be a major stress point in their lives.

A video game pales into how you feel at the end of a work day, come home, dinners on the table, the kids need you...thats your priority now. Home. Work. Family. More to life than pixels in a video game..and nothing, NOTHING, is more important than the time you spend in things that MATTER.

One of the more ludicrous claims I have heard is " you cant do optimal dps I guess you cant handle challenges in real life either"...to which I laughed.

And yeah, I do spend a lot of time doing glamours...its great fun. Note that word. Fun. At the end of the day, Semirhage, bear one fact very much in mind.

The aim of any game anywhere is to leave the player with less stress and worry they had from when they sat down. The aim is to PLAY, my friend, not blow a gasket working towards "optimum" "beating enrage timers" and spending hours pushing pixels when they could be doing things that are far more constructive.