Quote Originally Posted by ispano View Post
No, it wasn't. He was comparing learning a single encounter/instance to a full job. Which isn't quite right. It would be more akin to learning your job through the whole game and comparing that to a job in real life.
I strongly disagree and will continue to stand by his point. Which is that you don't truly learn something by simply reading a book, or watching a video. Human Beings don't work that way. Kinesthetic learners don't work that way. Mayhaps you do. But I am not you. Neither is a great deal of the human populace. Say what you will, but his point stands. No matter how much you wish to try and refute it.

A doctor doesn't learn how to perform surgery by simply watching a video. Nor does a Paladin Tank in FFXIV learn minor intricacies of a fight by merely reading about it or watching a great deal of video footage about it.

His point is that experience trumps all. Whether a Job in Information Technology, being a Surgeon, or tanking a certain EX mode boss in FFXIV...experience through learning will trump watching a video any day of the way. Period.