What is a HC player?

[Roeshel]

Is this the general understanding of what hardcore players and statics are? Seems a bit too extreme for me and rather unhealthy for the mind and body alike.

Also, If you have to invest 10 hours or even more to clear a raid tier as a static on week 1, doesn't this mean that the players are slow learners? I by no means claim to be a fast learner but it is just strange for me that someone who needs 10h+ to learn ten mins scripted fight expects fast learners to join him. If 10hours is fast then what is considered slow? Are the savage raids on week 1 that hard? I really want to find out.

[Ayuhra]

10 hours a DAY? If I played that often I wouldn't be working and wouldn't be able to afford the sub (or y'know anything else).

[MPK]

Yeah that sounds about right. Welcome to week 1 raiding. I would never do something like that so I do not consider myself a hardcore raider. It's so odd how people think people who do ultimate or w/e are hardcore but in reality, what ever is shown in OP is what HC raiding really is.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

As much as I enjoy raiding and XIV, I would never join a static like that.

I much prefer a chill raiding environment, stressing over fast clears isn't for me.

[LianaThorne]

It's obviously not meant for those with a normal life schedule/social life/family/etc. There are people out there (like myself) who have the time to put into a static like this. I'm just good on living for raiding, if you get my meaning.

Also, in terms of needing 10h+ days, I know some statics that struggle to get their clears after months of trying. They aren't easy fights for everyone. This static in particular looks like a group that is going for 1st/wants all of the new stuff immediately. This isn't the way all statics are, however hardcore statics do have the most rules/requirements.

[MoofiaBossVal]

Yeah that sounds about right. Welcome to week 1 raiding. I would never do something like that so I do not consider myself a hardcore raider. It's so odd how people think people who do ultimate or w/e are hardcore but in reality, what ever is shown in OP is what HC raiding really is.

This. When new raids come out in WoW, the people racing for world first book days off and stay up all day and all night raiding over the weekend and into the week until they finish. It's a marathon.

[ItMe]

I week 1 pugged Savage in solo que at 4 hours a day so if they need 10 something is weird...

Everyone's definition of HC is a little different, but my they seem to be on an extreme end...
Unless they're racing for the clear (which it doesn't sound like since they're talking about split clearing on ALTs) there's really no need for that brutal timetable.

[CaedemSanguis]

They are a lot of HC raider that have social life, family, girls friends, jobs, studies, etc

To my mind its more about priority

[CaedemSanguis]

I have been in HC static during SB/ShB and I still consider myself as a casual (I raid a lot during a few days per year, and beside those periods I log 3 hours a week for the weeklies), Unsubbed till Februrary, recently came back in game and will unsub in two weeks

[TroySoFab]

I learned recently that what this game's community considers HC, and what MMOs consider HC is pretty different. HC here typically refers to 'skill level' and not much emphasis on time invested. HC in other games usually just refers to time invested, as in the picture you used. I don't think this time investment lasts indefinitely, once the tier is cleared you just meet up to clear for the week and leave.