Let me give you an idea why you should not use mods before a certain level
And it is about 4kpp
t/557341(Give this thread a read)
If you're a lazy potato and didn't read that thread:
The higher the star, the more likely a mapper is going to place hard patterns in the map because the song allows it. (Provided this is ranked)
This means when you play HR, you're not playing at the most complex mapset you possibly can.
Another thing:
Stop going around saying "pp doesn't indicate skill"
It very well does
You can only be about around 30k off, and looking at you, being 100k, you're maximum a 70k player
If you don't believe me, look at my top scores. I can't beat 40k players.
So stop going around saying you're not a farmer that's why you have lower pp than usual, because to me you're more of a farmer than me.
Point is: IF YOU'RE DOOMSDAY YOU'RE NOT GOING TO STAY AT THAT RANK
In fact you will sky rocket to at least 3 digits in no time
Now the next thing I want to address is, I don't think AR is about reaction speed. It's about how well you aim.
The speed of approach circles is 300 ms AT AR 11
The average human reaction speed is around 200ms, THAT LEAVES YOU WITH 100MS TO AIM FROM WHEN YOU SAW THE CIRCLE. Now if you can't hit a circle in 300ms from one corner to the other, IT'S NOT YOUR DAMN REACTION SPEED IT'S YOUR AIM.
What's even worse is there is a line which points to where the next circle is, new combos don't even happen that often.
Do you ever feel like, WOAH, I CAN SUDDENLY PLAY AR9.8 even though just 2 months ago you couldn't even react to it?
It's because part of the reaction is your aim, and your reading skills, ability to cope with circles coming into your face.
I'm guessing you haven't felt that.
Now you can cheat what I just said, by playing higher ARs. What your brain does, is put lots of focus on the lines, and you will end up missing, majority of times, at the new combos. This is because your brain is looking for an edge, it will start guessing where the circles are based on past experience. It will aim base on the line and not the approach circle. This causes 2 problems. You are not going to be able to handle low ar for a while. And your accuracy will be trash.
In essense, don't even attempt HR until you're 4k pp
And yes, pp is a good indicator of skill, regardless of the twats that say that pp system is over-weighted pp map/DT spam.
Cus I don't care who you are, you ain't going to FC BestFriendS DT even though it's a pp map at your rank. And if you do, guess what, you're hacking,
And when you're 4k pp, you don't need G&R to tell you what to do anymore
One last thing:
Expecting people to listen to your guides when you're at 100k pp with trash top scores is like talking trash about hardvard when they rejected you cus "education doesn't display your skills". Yeah sure enough, it doesn't display your skills THAT well, but what tells me YOU'RE the one that is so pro? Do you expect havard to allow entry to students who are "geniuses that don't perform well?"