I know you'd say the opposite, but you have to expect the equally large number of players who dislike GTX-type of players more than Krems-type of players to be concerned by an admin application made by you.
You don't consider yourself a tryhard, but you are very much in the camp of 'use every advantage', 'play for kills' or simply following the current EU1 meta with a cookie-cutter archer/2h hybrid to irritate from a distance but retain lethality in melee. You may not kick and scream every time you die like the most tryhardish, but you do revel in the mentality they bring. I even recall you saying on the designed GTX hate thread that GTX disconnecting when he's going to die in EU1 is perfectly understandable if he's going to be killed by more than one opponent since he'd consider it an unfair fight and so deny them a kill they wouldn't otherwise be worthy of, it's statements like that which put you in the 'tryhard' category. It's a very elitist mentality.
An 'I hate Krems' platform may win you the vote for admin, but the people voting might get more than they bargained for in an admin with such high expectations, taking the game so seriously, and judging server interaction against a very polarized view on what's fun and what isnt. Meanwhile you love exactly the kind of toxic crpg asshole that Fin featured in his cRPG hymn.
Well you're picture of a "tryhard" is clearly way different than mine. And i cant blame you for not knowing the builds ive played in throughout crpg. But let me elighten you, As for the "every advantage" i simply make use of most mechanics, i wouldnt really put this in the tryhard category, its just simply playing the game. Im not a tryhard for using the nudge am i? Or the roll? I dunno maybe there are some things i do use that i havent considered..
As for the 2h plate archer hybred being meta (what?) and cookie cutter build, hell this aint even viable by most peoples standards, this is a troll build by most tbh. Tryharding wouldnt be hybriding really, that would be going for a pure archer or pure 2h build, because if you combine both you will be slightly lacking in both (lacking a lot with the build i did).
And before this i have played either very strength heavy or agi heavy builds, my main has for a looong time been a 15-27 build (pre- 35 patch) which was purely meant for supporting, give up damage to simply make use of stun and mobility and let others get kills. Quite opposite of tryharding, but i guess it is tryharding in a way aswell but not the generic K/D whore tryhard. I have not used a danish/german for more than an hour since the start of the game. At the very beginning of cRPG when everyone used these to be tryhards, i decided id go for a weapon which was the war spear. Pretty weak in comparison to most, i also went for a 9-30 build which was insane and silly, but fun. I still tried just like any other would when i played, but i wasnt a "tryhard". I actually havent even made a proper balance build untill just now recently.
Allthough i suppose you could say tryharding and minmaxing are different things, and tryharding is the mentality while minmaxing is building the character. Then i would fall in the tryhard category, while often being the opposite of the minmaxing part.
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