On "Hardcore"

[Gramul]

So we can't have quick and complex?

If it can be done quickly, how complicated can it really be?

[Aceofspades]

If it can be done quickly, how complicated can it really be?

Exactly!

Lets break this down.

We can all agree that skill in a RPG boils down to ones knowledge and understanding of the games mechanics. Gearing your chr is 80% luck and 20% knowing how to gear your jobs for optimal performance, wich gose back to understanding the game mechanics. NOTHING I mentioned above is needed to complete speed runs.

Speed runs equate to /spam mode on any content untill that content becomes soo familiar it is simplistic and memorized. Knowing how to cut corners and when/where to be and when/what to do is not skill related at all. Example, dogs can be trained to , without a signal or stop watch, let a person know when its time for them to take there medicine. It boils down to memory and knowing key actions that you identify as signals to act a certain way, all this is simple training, nothing more.

Everyone who claims to be hard core because they have a million speed runs is ignoring one major fact, casuals get speed runs too, if it were hard core content, casuals in AF gear would not be able to achive it. Usually the only content that can truly be dubed as "hard core" is PvP . As the situations are never the same, the enemy is always learning and has as many variables as you.

lets not talk down to people who have logged half the hours as us and have acomplished 3/4 of the content we have, if they were given the same time to play , Im positive they would be caught up if not surpass us. memorizing content dose NOT = skill. its that simple.