Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post

What are your thoughts on this classification list?
You're trying to arbitrarily label and classify players who don't fit in a box.

"Casual" in it's most literal sense is a player who does not do anything that requires a time commitment. So most of your Tank and Healers in duties, regardless of skill level, are easily this, along with people who just login to do weekly things. "I got 15 minutes, what do I play?"

"Hardcore" in it's most literal sense are players who overcommit to everything. Duties, Raids, Hunts, Crafting, get everything to 70 on as fast as possible. And also complain that there's nothing to do, yet still grind away. "I got 8 hours a day to grind out tomes/raid to gear all my jobs"

Anything in between are players who know and set their limits. They don't commit to things they just don't want to do, maybe they will do it later, maybe never. You don't need 9 ranks for this.

Those labels have nothing to do with skill. The game doesn't even provide a way to gauge skill level, and there is no actual way to gauge skill level since it will depend on how well someone is at working with random PUG's, not just FC's or Statics. Someone who can only perform well with the team they form can only be fairly measured against another team of the same with the same goals. Otherwise it's an apples and bananas comparison. A sports analogy would be picking the entire college basketball team who trained together, and PUG's being picking random strangers that you saw in an outdoor basketball court at some point. Maybe you luck out and it's a good team, but in general it will still be an under-performing team.

The words usually used to describe a skill level are "Beginner" / "Amateur" for players who are new. After that point everyone is experienced and any further classification is meaningless without context. Certainly no content in FFXIV is worth dedicating hours per day unless you're being paid (eg Twitch/Youtube/Patreon, eSports, etc) and if you're making enough to make a full time job of it, then you can call yourself a Professional. (People don't generally pay players to be bad at games unless that's their stichk.) So one might be really good at just one piece of content, and average at everything else, that doesn't elevate their gaming skill level. Just because someone is really good at Monopoly doesn't make them automatically good at Scrabble.