What is a HC player?

[Roeshel]

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I can spend 10 hours playing a game on the weekends but not actively playing it if you get what I mean. For example, if I use df for a dungeon as dps I wait 20 mins in a queue and actually play 15-20 mins in the dungeon. So in the 20 mins I was waiting I was doing something else completely unrelated to the game and maybe I was even afk. When doing savage you have to pay so much attention when you are still learning. I am no longer enjoying myself if I have to do it for more than 2-3 hours of actively playing. I can push myself to get the clear a day earlier but what's the point? I will wake up with a headache and feel like crap throughout the whole day because instead of sleeping I was raiding.

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I made parties for X mechanic onwards, we play, we wipe, we play, someone leaves, I recruit more ppl, repeat. When I am confident enough(seen enrage), PF becomes a clear party. Obviously, not everybody is welcomed, you need enrage experience or a clear. I usually played on the weekends for progging because parties filled up quicker, and there were more practice parties as well.
The most difficult raid was the Oracle of Darkness because it was locked behind another raid boss and it had no normal raid version. I needed 3 more days of progging to get clear of e12s part two after clearing part one. I must mention that by the time I sat down to learn e12s' guide they already enabled the echo which gave us 10% boost to stats but I still think that I would have been able to get the clear if they postponed their patch.

I am basing what savage is on my personal experience with pf. I get that not everyone has had the same experience. And I know that people who are more willing to kick other players during pf practice groups are more often than not bad players, who are frustrated immensely at their lack of skills so they get pissed when someone else makes a mistake before the X mechanic in the pf. I've been kicked twice from pf practice groups. Once it was by a tank who was progging e12s relativities for 2 whole weeks. The other, well..., a player who currently has 27 echo runs on e12s, part 2 is all gray logs, you can imagine how it was when we were doing practice. This speaks a lot more than I can say. He did tell me that he sits 6h+ per day to get a clear. I assume he wasted a lot of days, trying to get his clear. He wastes his time meaninglessly. Instead of taking a break, think, reflect on his mistakes and his rotation, he just spams savage, without any improvement.

In any case, when Endwalker drops, I hope that the gameplay of the healer classes is going to be more interesting because I won't be creating ten alts to do the raids because the loot is restricted, grinding is not what keeps me in a game, it's gameplay. I literally unsubbed because in the hardest raid I hated the excessive amount of clipping caused by the constant need for movement. WHM is or more like was my main. I am definitely changing to other healer classes if it remains the way it is right now.