@Indica_Flora@exeazee see what happened with AM in TOP. its not a fake scenario, its a real possibility with how this community hooks onto making something that is not required, a requirement. just like how you dont need 1 regen, 1 shield healer yet pf does not accept otherwise.
the fact that a 9th man and a sim both make content ‘easier’ doesn’t make them the same thing. difficulty assistance exists on a spectrum and where something falls on that spectrum matters.
scalding take but i feel like judging people based on not preserving challenge while at the same playing with 9th men who make the content easier (on top of other assistive things that make doing the content easier) is somewhat reminiscent of assist mode discourse
@yo_gurt_yo_gurt@exeazee if you did even a tiny bit of research you would realize my tweet came hours before that one was even made. its my own opinion, do what you want but dont pretend simming is equivalent to reading a raidplan and be loud about it. i dont care what you do otherwise
@jelloknifee 9ths are extremely valuable. nowhere near sims for sure. there is a nuance to this discussion that is completely lost by either side when they purposefully or ignorantly start using extremes. I guess I worry more about the normalization of going out of the game to play the game
@jelloknifee agree people can do what they want, my issue is when sims get conflated with reading a raidplan or having a 9th man. they're not even close to the same thing. simming is by far the biggest shortcut available and pretending otherwise is willfully ignorant
@_TejanoWeeb@MoonlitLunaria sim is being handed the exact exam and running it until it’s memorized. you can read a raidplan and still fuck up 10 times as you learn to execute it, that gap between understanding and execution is literally what progression is. sims close that gap entirely outside the game
I’m seeing some Olympic grade mental gymnastics being pulled right now to justify the use of sims. People really seem to have forgotten that the main thing that makes Ultimates difficult is the fact that you are required to become consistent on early phase to practice later ones.
actually insane to me how much of the xiv community does not see anything wrong with using sims but loses their mind over a fucking red dot that I guarantee made no meaningful difference in that groups prog
@notprettymf but but but but but… like… they had a red dot on their screen in fru!!! we know 100% for sure without a doubt whatsoever that the streaming teams would never do such a thing?? we would totally hear and see it on stream too!! cheaters.
anyways back to my 297th sim attempt
i see that there is some confusion in the ffxiv community. the way that you win world first in a race is by being the first in the world to defeat it. i hope that clears things up