Increasing difficulty in casual content ≠ Savage

[MoroMurasaki]

I enjoy how the title of the thread says "increasing the difficulty of casual content does not equal Savage" and yet people are getting into debates on how to bring Savage into 4man instances.

The point is that it doesn't have to be savage.

There is a bredth of potential contnet between faceroll and Savage. Aim there, not at Savage.

[Shurrikhan]

I enjoy how the title of the thread says "increasing the difficulty of casual content does not equal Savage" and yet people are getting into debates on how to bring Savage into 4man instances.

The point is that it doesn't have to be savage.

There is a bredth of potential contnet between faceroll and Savage. Aim there, not at Savage.

That said, figuring out whether the best way to reach such a difficulty is to aim at Savage and then proceed just part of the way and smooth out the edges vs. aiming for something inherently different is a very relevant point of discussion.

I'd argue that the best midcore difficulty is one that targets competence, awareness, engagement, and tactics insofar as positioning, CD-syncing, and focus-targeting (almost) equally to Savage (or perhaps, in some cases, even more, as repeat runs of an exact script actually devalues such things), but with greatly deemphasized memorization -- if any at all.