Quote Originally Posted by Nysneirdre View Post
Hey get back to me when you burn 12 hours straight on your day off in Titan HM due to people not being properly prepared and winging the fight.
Did anyone make any attempt to explain where people were failing when it happened? Or did people just throw up their hands and say "this isn't going to work I'm done" and then leave duty?

The latter is what I saw more often than not while doing Garuda HM. New people would be in the event and fail someplace and sometimes people would tell them where they screwed up but often not. So the wipe happened again at or around the same point. But want to know the shocking part? When those people were told what was happening and why the party was wiping it stopped happening. They may fail elsewhere as they learned the mechanics but they learned.

Want to know what happened then? One person decided they were done, despite progress being made so the whole party fell apart.

Twelve hours is a lot of time to spend on one fight, but without context I can't help but think it's because the people in those groups didn't want to put in the effort to explain what happened and why it happened.

To the comment from AldricBranchais, what does it matter if it is progression or not? This is a game, and people shouldn't have to do homework before doing a fight. Ask if someone's new to the encounter before you start (something I don't see happening very often unless someone outs themselves) and then give a brief rundown if you feel its important enough they know going into it. Then touch on spots with problems as you go.

Not everyone learns by reading a guide or watching a video after all. Sometimes they have to burn themselves a couple of times to really get it.