Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
The players who beat all savage content within a month are not average players. They are usually very noticeably more skilled than most raiders, and they often put in far more time in a single lockout. Competitive and/or hardcore statics often raid 12+ hours a week, whereas a more laid back team often raid 8 or less. Both types of teams could finish the content in the same amount of hours played, but of course the team that puts in more hours each week will finish it sooner.
I've raided since 2.0 and back in the Coil days I used to play with what I'd call an average midcore static back then, we used to play 9 hours a week. We cleared First and Second Coil about 1 month before echo release, so we took around 5 months to clear.
The top groups back then on my server (Ragnarok) got their kill around 1 month after the content was released.

Nowadays I know a lot of midcore statics that play around the same amount of hours as I did back then, and even though their skill is average and I wouldn't call them good players, all of them got their clear in around a month at most.

If you want to check how high the clear rates are nowadays compared to pre-Creator days, just look at FFlogs.
Gordias for example was cleared by 44 people on Ragnarok before 3.1 was released.
Midas was cleared by 88 people on Ragnarok before 3.3 was released.
Eden Savage has been cleared by 2119 people on Ragnarok and 5.1 is coming out next week. Numbers speak for themselves.