Quote Originally Posted by Collin_Sky View Post
All of this can be overcome with practice - every single part of it. I’m currently on 600 pulls of FRU, and my group is likely to clear within the next one or two raid sessions. What do you think all those pulls were? We didn’t just watch guides and immediately jump into clear attempts. We had to practice the mechanics, learn the timings, and understand the nuances of the moment to moment decisions required for each mechanic.

Your intrinsic ability improves as you practice. Unless you’re some kind of savant, everyone needs to put in the effort to improve their skills. That’s how progress works.

The fact that you fail to recognize this is, frankly, sad. It suggests that you see no hope for improvement in yourself and, worse, no reason to even try.

You provide no evidence for this statement, nor have you countered any of my arguments. An anecdote about your approach to the game says absolutely nothing about the skill of others and what they can achieve.

Can skill be improved through practice and more knowledge. Yes of course, up to a point. But to argue there isn't an individual skill cap flies in the face of human experience, not to mention neurobiology.

I am a very competitive person. I played poker for a living for many years. I understand what it takes to get good at a game. I could share my process of "progging" DT MSQ dungeons with Duty Support, my experiments unsynched with older, harder content (where however much I practice, the only way I can survive certain mechanics is by out-gearing them). But what's the point when I'll just be told I'm not trying hard enough? Apparently you can assess what I am capable of doing better than I can. Impressive.

(Apologies for delayed responses, this daily post limit is another example of an unwanted "feature" imposed by SE on players.)