What is Midcore? Why does it matter?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Steps of faith was different, the fight was terribly designed and you hit its fail condition like 5 minutes before the enrage but if you failed it you couldn’t wall yourself

Basically in the original version you had to hit the dragon with both of the dragon killers. This happened at about 4 minutes into the fight, if you missed either of them (because the execution of said mechanics was wonky and unintuitive you basically just had to stand there and wait for him to walk all the way to end of the arena and destroy the last barrier which would cause a wipe

Chrysalis is a better example of an older trial being a legit challenge for people when it was on content because it was well designed and had some interesting mechanics, steps of faith was always terribly designed

Chrysalis is actually really easy. People still don't understand how it works, but it's easy.

There's one set of orbs you don't have to pop, because they spawn the sprites.

You pop sprint and Def and offensive cds before getting sucked in the middle, and you don't need the lb3 to kill the tear.
But people fall back on that as a crutch every time. Oh well.

As for savage being midcore, it is. And I say this as someone who has not cleared the tier yet because p12s is kicking my statics collective ass. If it was hardcore content, it would take hardcore statics longer than a day or two to clear it. Simple as that.

Eureka is not midcore. It's the definition of casual content. Same with bozja.