Quote Originally Posted by Carin-Eri View Post
The latter.

He doesn't have access to official metrics, or any other form of evidence, that could prove this claim.
He is wrong anyway. People were super bad in ARR and only got better after 2.2 when the relic grind came and people started to speedrun things to get tomes faster and doing the trial roulette every day. Adds were -never- properly tanked in CT. I know that for sure because I often was ripped apart when I casted Medica 2...

Jobs were easy to play in ARR for the most part (maybe Monk and Summoner actually were harder to play than today) and only got hard in HW when they added all those timers and buffs you had to upkeep. Dumbing down jobs begun in SB, because people were >bad< in HW. But on his graph it is the peak player skill time...

But oh well, why am I wasting my time here in this troll topic trying to argue...