Let's disregard the fact that you took two of my points and mashed them together as if they were supposed to be, and then applied them to one of the hardest fights of the game. Conversely, I saw the Resin Bomb drops during the Air Phase in A1S once, and knew exactly what the team needed to do to bait them without watching any videos prior, and what I told my team to do worked the very next time. Please don't make the "mechanics" of raid fights seem harder than they are. It's the "teamwork" involved in doing the mechanics that most groups struggle with. I honestly could care less if they wiped 4000 times; they beat the content without guides available because everyone else was waiting for them to make the guides.
I never said Elysium/Lucrezia were fast at clearing A4S. They were only brought up to prove that you don't need to watch a video before attempting to figure something out that is Raid content in FFXIV. If you don't want to or can't put in the time to do that, then that's perfectly fine. But don't claim that you "need prior knowledge to win" because that's just silly. No one would ever win if that was truly the case.
I am fully aware the major differences between raids and dungeons in this game. The person I quoted outlined them extremely poorly.
As an aside: your spoiler confused the crap out of me too. It's like, "Oh, where did y'all come from?" :p I do love that fight though...
