It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert

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Are you an expert at your character yet?

(There’s 8760 hours in a year)

My /played is 595d, 13h

So, 14,293 hours.

But at level 60, I’ve only had 114d, 9h

So, only 2,745 hours

I’m not at expert at Shadowlands but I’m definitely an expert paladin?

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But are you having fun? That’s all that matters.

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I have 1400 days on my account.

/sigh

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I don’t feel like having another reason to be depressed today so I will not be checking my /played on all of my characters.

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not if the field is changing, you’re not.

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Really sad to me that some people can play for that long and still not know how to play their class

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When did you start playing?

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iirc that rule of thumb only applies if you spend all of that time practicing to get better

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Yes, this is important. It’s very easy to put hours in if you aren’t actively attempting to improve.

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29 Nov 2004.

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Nice!

/tenchar

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The 10,000 hour rule is a generalisation, not really a fact.
Practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.

If you are repeating the wrong thing or incorrect technique etc you are just reinforcing a bad habit, not actually improving.

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At WoW? Yeah.
At any given character? Nah. I think the highest one floats around 300-some days.
I can’t imagine playing the exact same character every expansions for that long. Gross.

That 300-Day character of mine is INCREDIBLY frontloaded from when I played this game all day every day for years when I first started.

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I’d be right there with you if I hadn’t taken a 5 year break.

I only have 850. That’s only on characters that still exist, mind you. I have a few that I deleted halfway through leveling them as well.

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I have … a Lot of characters.

A LOT.

… idek want to know how much total played time I have across six accounts. >.>

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i probably played that much PoE and i’m still a newb :wink:

the 10k hours meme might just be a meme

but you can be a police officer in 21 weeks :stuck_out_tongue: crazy

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Not even close, I think my total playtime is like 17 days at this stage? :rofl: still a pleb

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I am an ex-part.

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Depends how good you are at sanc’ing