"Competition", "Skill", Cognitive Dissonance, and You.

[Ravager]

Originally Posted by Heebs13 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Certain key roles in P99 raids take skill, such as pulling or leading. If shit hits the fan, a skilled chanter, or offtank / healer combo can save the raid before things snowball out of control. For the most part though, most p99 raiding is decided by who had more people show up faster. That's not really skill, that's sickness.

It's sickness to wake up at 3am for a batphone. It's sickness to farm for hours to get clickies or plat to recharge clickies. It's sickness to poopsock a mob for a 16 hour window, or coth duck for 16 hours straight. It's sickness to be within arms reach of your computer for 16 hours so that you can log in at a moment's notice when the batphone hits. But it's not skill. Sickness and skill are two different things, and I'd argue p99 raiding is mostly sickness with bits of skill sprinkled throughout.

Fixed for nuance.