What is Midcore? Why does it matter?

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ITT: Nobody wants to admit the content they don't do can still be engaging and challenging for others. And most are unwilling to look at the broader audience, only themselves.

I do in fact think they were engaging with you in good faith. I can see how you interpret them as condescending, but I disagree greatly with that interpretation. The meme responses however....

It's all a matter of perspective really. Ask someone who does Ultimates what mid is and they will probably say Extreme. Ask someone who never does anything beyond normal raids what Hard is and they will tell you Extremes. I actually really like the food level analogy we got a few pages back. I'll probably start using that myself especially because it defines an experience as opposed to a person, which is more likely to avoid the interpretation as being an attack.

That's fair - I was a bit harsh. I guess I tend to see things a little differently when I know the posters are dirty baiters. lol

I think the Food example is good, I'd probably put myself at Cafe - Restaurant level. Can I get a Cafe with Fine Dining quality food though? I'm not interested in microwaved quiche, and I don't want to sit down for 2 hours when I just want to eat a quarter of a steak at a time.

I think my needs are starting to mostly become more a question of design flexibility, and less of a difficulty issue. If you can throw me in content that's the absolute most difficult bullshit you can, but don't require body checks - I would LOVE to run against that wall over and over. It lets me dip my toes in without forcing the rest of the group to suffer at my expense, potentially causing some social issues along the way. (And boy does XIV have some of them social issues)

I'm also feeling very attacked with all of these "Casuals" being thrown around like XIV only has 2 pieces of content that ever qualifies for Mid-Hard to them. So I drew up a scale. I won't fill it in, because I'm an incapable Casual - But if anyone wants to give it a shot, go for it. I'm actually curious how other people would scale content. lol