Quote Originally Posted by Raqrie_Tohka View Post
Edit: This particular idea probably won’t happen, people will still have to take the long route, and it doesn’t really matter anymore.
I still say I put in possibly more effort than a static person, to clear the tier in PF. And you’ll never understand it unless you sat through it physically on a 1-1 timescale.

But there is a specific kind of disappointment, which results from gaming on because you trust the game, trust the developer, trust the content structure etc. to still believe it is “right” to try nicely and all. Even when you have been proven wrong before. But you will be proven wrong again, and it will only be your own fault for stupidly trusting on. And you will deserve all your troubles, as well as the fun made of you.

May someday this game allow us to speak of lighter things. In better circumstances.
I'm not quite sure what you're on about here, but maybe you placed your trust expecting the wrong things - because I've trusted that they'll deliver difficult raid-content aimed at statics with max-ilvl rewards every 5-6 months and so far I havent been disappointed.

In regards to the amount of effort someone puts into this: Statics require a different kind of effort than pugging. In the long run you might need to perfect your own gameplay more and endure more terrible groups when going the PF-route, but a static will require you to comitt to a schedudle, to be play the same job/role every week, to maybe go back and clear tiers you dont need to clear anymore (I might not need anything from E3S, but if my static mates do, we'll go and clear it til everyone has their loot), to even finding a static that suits your playstyle. As a static-leader you might even take on the task to keep an eye for everyones gear-progression, look for replacements if someone cant make it etc. etc.
Both ways have their pros and cons - and the effort to organise a static is rewarded with better loot-chances.

At the end of the day you can talk about lighter things already... if you want to, that is... unless by "light things" you mean talking about how even more content caters to the more casual playerbase now...