Auto-battle versus manual for hard content — second attempt

Genuine question, not trying to start anything. I compared notes with a friend and we got completely different outcomes on similar hardware.

The numbers look fine on paper, but it feels noticeably worse in practice. If someone has a link to a proper explanation, I will take it.

In my testing, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This comes up a lot, so: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Slightly different take — it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Same boat here. that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

From experience, the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Agreed on most of this, except check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Adding to the above: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Depends on your setup, but broadly the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Counterpoint: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.