I just think all the people that a lot of you consider incredible are just a bunch of little bastards running machines that can pump nice frames, or more frames per second than God; to me, that's the only reason why great rangers are so great; probably the only legit reason why people play ranger more often right after they upgrade, and if you don't see them playing as a ranger, why? Probably 'cause of FPS...maybe connection. I know Auron is a good player, I feel for him 'cause his machines sucks as bad as mine, imagine what he can do with 30+,40+,50+ FPS with a connection that doesn't chronically **** itself? I can adjust to ping and all that network crap anyday, as long as I have some FPS to see myself take 2 steps. >:0 I don't buy into those m4d l33t players; it's all mechanical advantage to me. o.o That's my biggest grudge.
Don't say that FPS doesn't matter, 'cause it does; I don't care who you are, if you don't think so, call me when Jeff Gordon wins the Indy 500 driving a Pinto or a car made in the 70's; there's a threshold and times when skill isn't performance-dependent, but I can name a million scenarios in this game when gear does matter, seriously, too. >.<
Online gaming on computers doesn't justify skill too well; especially 'cause of the availability of peripheral advantage devices out there, different machine specs, different connections, etc; too me, PC gaming skill is just having great players with the luxury of having damn good machines 'cause they have money to throw around; if I can do a damn good job running 10-20 FPS constant and be one of the best in some matches in pubs and stuff; give me 60 FPS and I'll promise I'm be better by a tenfold 'cause I already know my keys and use them with great efficiency, I know most of those lil' tactics and all that crap inside and out; I just need the performance.
So all that dueling crap to me is just a severely blunt estimate. ^^ Going one-on-one, just the same; especially in this game; it ain't deathmatch and points anyways.
....and if any of you are running a CPU better than my 1.3Ghz Intel, I hate you.