If your new to a dungeon.

[Caraway]

Do what I do, and that is I go and read up on it as much as I can. It gives me a idea of how to run it. I'm sure most of you already do this.

I come from years of playing Everquest from 1999 days, and those dungeons were very hardcore. It was sure fun being a Monk and pulling using FD.

No. Absolutely not. That, to me, is tantamount to cheating. I won't look up strats for something until I've bombed on it a few times.

I much prefer to earn my wins.

[vanityobscene]

No. Absolutely not. That, to me, is tantamount to cheating. I won't look up strats for something until I've bombed on it a few times.

I much prefer to earn my wins.

Sadly, if you're a tank and you have this attitude the whole party is going to wail on you, because they need an effective tank to make their run enjoyable. It's hard to play and be the cause of wipes because you don't know how to manage the mobs or have any idea of what to expect until your whole party is being smashed. People tend to quit on you.

[Niwashi]

I don't like to watch videos, because it spoils the surprises in the dungeon, but I still have to watch them because people complain too much if you don't know the dungeon.

Personally, I find the text dungeon guides in most wiki sites to be somewhat of a middle ground. They provide info about the major obstacles and mechanics you'll encounter, but at least your own run is the first time you actually see the place.

It's still a spoiler in the sense that you already know what to do and don't have to learn it the hard way, but it doesn't feel as much like a spoiler if you're getting to see the place for the first time as you run it. So I read up about dungeons before I run them, but I don't watch videos of them.

[vanityobscene]

Personally, I find the text dungeon guides in most wiki sites to be somewhat of a middle ground. They provide info about the major obstacles and mechanics you'll encounter, but at least your own run is the first time you actually see the place.

It's still a spoiler in the sense that you already know what to do and don't have to learn it the hard way, but it doesn't feel as much like a spoiler if you're getting to see the place for the first time as you run it. So I read up about dungeons before I run them, but I don't watch videos of them.

Any text guides worthy of looking at? I've found IGN guides to be abhorrent insofar as how many things are plainly wrong (or outdated) in their guides when it comes to FFXIV.

[Niwashi]

Any text guides worthy of looking at? I've found IGN guides to be abhorrent insofar as how many things are plainly wrong (or outdated) in their guides when it comes to FFXIV.

Eorzea Reborn has some nice ones. I usually just Google the dungeon name and check the first two or three guides that pop up on the list. (Checking at least a couple provides some protection against bad info in one.) Those tend to be some combination of consolegameswiki, gamerescape, ign, ffxivinfo, ffxivguild, or eorzeareborn.

(Note: I've only completed up through Brayflox's Longstop in the story, so can't vouch for how good anyplace's guides are on endgame content.)