GL on your Danny prog! I’m sure it’ll get old eventually but it’s funny for now and thats what matters :^)
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Ion being blunt and telling people to get good is still funny and makes me like him slightly more than indifference.
So – slightly less indifferent?
Cloak/Evasion. 
Which person? And how do you define “completely master their class”? Asking for clarification here.
Which person what? I am confused.
Someone who can parse within a reasonable range of sims.
There’s a reason genearlly there’s always a surge of players at expansion launches and patch launches that fall off quickly.
Everything is geared towards pushing end game content like Raids, Mythic+ and PvP.
There isn’t really anything to do for a majority of players who just casually play the game for the exploration and roleplay aspect of the game. So people sub for like 1 to 2 months then dip, and then you hear the sky is falling because sub numbers are down.
Blizzard clearly doesn’t care about the average casual player. 
Being drip fed content through weekly story quests and massive anima costs for how little anima we have is a result, in my opinion, of blizzard trying to artificially inflate how long the casual player base stays active, because they aren’t willing to do anything beyond drag little to nothing out anymore.
Blizzard seems to want to cater to the top despite it not making up a majority of their player base, not sure why. But hey, their ship to sink I guess. They probably made so much money off lootboxes in overwatch that they don’t care if wow dies anymore.
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is he wrong though? is he really wrong?
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The power curve is, but not item level (which is one component of power). Ion specifically says this in the interview, and he would know.
Not entirely, but perhaps it wasn’t presented well. Kinda reminds me of:
That set off a storm.
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Reminds me back in SB when Yoshi-P told Machinist players and healers to git gud.
I feel there is really no way to present it well to the portion of the playerbase that needs to hear it. Anything that doesn’t begin and end with "You are right! You would be totally doing the same dps as that person if you only had 10 more ilvls!’
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well yeah they only care about the top 5% and all his interviews pretty much confirms that.
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That article turned 10 years old a couple months ago and is still as relevant as ever.
You could change a couple words and that wouldn’t be too bad a primer for people looking to get into M+.
Ye, cause the bottom 95% have garbage takes like “15ilvl is the reason why someone is doing literally double my DPS”.
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Well theres different kinds of players. I dont think someone who is an AH tycoon could play a couple of hours a week and “parse within a reasonable range of sims”. You need more time than a couple of hours a week for that. Also, are we talking green, blue, or purple parses as the bar?
In my opinion, a couple of hours a week is not enough time to master a class. I personally cant keep my muscle memory up with just two hours a week, especially coming from another game the rest of the week. If I pop on say on Monday for a quick M+, and I didnt play at all the rest of the week, I’m definitely going to be rusty.
When I was playing 4+ hours almost every day I didnt even need to play the standard build to have decent parses.
I think a raider who raids mythic 12 hours a week is going to do better than someone who does 6 hours a week. Practice in my opinion does net better results.
Now there are exceptions to that, which is why I am wondering what type of player we are talking about here.
Not an argument for the record, just a discussion. I think practice and time do play into performance a lot is all.
there is not a million people in the starting zones anymore , this is what the layering was for
According to Asmongold Tweet in regards to Ion interview w/ preach apparently there was a FF14 Dev who replied with 33+ likes stated… "Honestly I can speak as an FFXIV creator (and a VERY new and small one; can’t imagine bigger ones) and say that I’ve been absolutely flooded with “WoW refugee” questions.
That is telling of how poorly WoW’s doing imho. It always was a thing but never to this level."
ANYONE else want to be “REFUGEES” in FF14 ???
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If they wanted to they could. I don’t think anyone has the inability to learn quickly (within reason). That was the point. Implying that people need hours and hours and hours and hours to learn is insulting to them I feel.
You are also adding in parameters that didn’t exist in what I said. Sure if you are bouncing game to game or haven’t played in a bit you will need a bit of a warmup. That doesn’t mean you haven’t mastered/aren’t capable of mastering a class. Being a master doesn’t mean playing at 100% all of the time. It means being able to play at 100% ever.
Well not even 100% but you should get the idea.
You go into a little more detail, give a few words of encouragement, and it makes them feel like you’re on their side. I do this all the time when teaching workshops. So much better than going outside to scream, which isn’t good for Yelp reviews.
Little bit different scenario. 
Next thing we know Ion will be working at Riot on their new MMO. Usually what happens to lead devs saying uncomfortable truths.