What is Midcore? Why does it matter?

[Shurrikhan]

[To everyone: are Mythic+ dungeons in WoW to be considered as 'midcore'?]

Up to a point, depending on one's gear and experience and what levels of gear and experience are common in the community for the given key level.

If you can PuG it and clear by just... doing your job (i.e., without any finnicky strats or gimmicks), then yeah. But how far a range of difficulty levels that covers depends on the individual and the community climate.

It's similar to Extremes. Most likely wouldn't consider Thordan Ex on release to be simply midcore and certain outliers since have likewise made PuGing difficult, but otherwise... yeah, for most, they're midcore.


For my part, casual | midcore | hardcore is just a matter of accessibility, but even that has some 2-4 different types, such as... idk, Total Time Investment (to see reward from the content, perhaps including gearing up), Consecutive/Coordinated Time Investment (to make substantial progress), and Skill Requirements.

(Or you might break that down into just Effort Over Time vs. Effort At A Time; whatever. Point being: if we cared only about the amount of hours put in before significant rewards, then even Unsynced mount grinds that roll over on entry could be considered "midcore", but at the same time, we don't want to necessarily demand high hours of play in total or at a time to call something "midcore" if it's nonetheless challenging even if far more intuitive and PuGable than most "hardcore" content.)