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mgz:
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on March 05, 2011, 07:23:23 PM ---of curse, practice makes perfect, that is skill, what else did you think of ?
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as a previous wow player i will say it dont take skill.
Its more about following a plan and following a do and dont do list.
Skills would be what are needed to move your mouse and push buttons.
Realistically its not being skilled even on a level of gamer. Its being good at following a strat.
Thats like saying that the grunts in the marines are military geniuses because they did what their commander told them to and it worked.
Havoc10K:
to me skill is actually correct rotation of spells/abilities, and gear setup, and following tacs, if you fuck up, you better be a gnome, easier to pick up and kick out :P
dcudney:
If you are going by that, then i would say the people who spent the time figuring out what items to use to get the most bang for your buck are the skillful ones. The rest just went to a website and read what to use and followed suit, nothing skillful about loading up a web browser and reading what skills in what order to use. Or what armor to get and what to enchant it with.
If anything the Raid leaders and guys spending hours figuring out rotations are the skillful ones. The majority of people just take their work and use it. That is not skill in any form, smart it maybe but skill it is not!
Always enjoy reading stuff like this where a select few think its all about skill. Skill left most video games a long time ago, but none the less they are still fun!
And even with skill taken out of video games there are still plenty of failbots who can't get it right
Havoc10K:
well I like screwing up in hack and slash games cuz I didn't get that skill lol, and it made me fail :D
now how to work around it is the question.
but yeah, when I get a new item (or items) that improve my stats but lower others, I spend some time fixing rotations, be it healing, damage or tanking, if you have a proper rotation, you can sleep and fight at the same time, like I did a few months ago on a few bosses in ICC 25 :P skipping the part that the ICC bosses are terribly easy :P
zat0x91:
--- Quote from: dcudney on March 06, 2011, 03:02:35 PM ---If anything the Raid leaders and guys spending hours figuring out rotations are the skillful ones. The majority of people just take their work and use it. That is not skill in any form, smart it maybe but skill it is not!
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Most raid leaders aren't as "skilled" as you may think because they're just trying different strategy's from wowwiki or whatever else.
Theorycrafters "figure out rotations" on the PTR long before it even it comes out, then they just post the information on websites like Elitist Jerks. Sure it tells you everything that you need to perform well, but does it mean a person will? Try playing a fire mage; there's no rotation, just priority list and there's a endless amount of things that you could change due to proc's, amount of mana, amount of adds out, etc. It's not as simple as you may think...
Ever wonder why it's not so easy to hit the top 5 on World of Logs?
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