Quote Originally Posted by k4dz View Post
Doesn't matter whether he/she is either properly equipped for the fight (ilvl requirement, etc), or have watched YouTube prior to the fights (which I gotta say, actually ruins the FUN you could have discovering the challenge you're about to face).
I have to at least in part object to this. If you don't watch a guide or at least get someone to explain, for later game fights you are -going- to wipe and it -will- be because of a mechanic that -you- weren't prepared to deal with. There's no way to know without being told, for example, that the orbs in Ultima Ballad will wipe the party if they come into contact. There's no way to know without being told that if you're the off-tank, you have to run over and stun the Wavetooth in Levi EX or he'll Hysteria the hell out of the party. (Though I admit having to learn on my own that you have to stun him -before- he starts casting, and that he can be phase-pushed into doing it early... but both of those cost at least a couple of wipes too.) If you're going on DF, chances are you won't have seven people who are okay with wiping repeatedly so you can blind-learn the fight's mechanics. I mean, it's fun sometimes to blind-learn, hell, I did it as a tank for the three new expert dungeons. But I did that with a party of people I knew and were totally okay with me doing that. I would never even dream of making three other people wipe repeatedly on Liavinne while I tried to piece together her core mechanic myself.

I mean, consider a new DPS trying to run T5 without reading anything.
"Okay, dragons, this'll be cool... wait, which one do I attack? ... oh god why am I on fire HEAL PLZ ... okay, those guys are gone... what's this blue symbol on my head WHY AM I ON FIRE AGAIN BUT WITH HALF THE PARTY THIS TIME ... wait, green now? Why's everyone running donw... oh cool the wall kills you if you hit it?"
... you get my point.

tl;dr Blind learning is fun but the DF isn't the place for it; if you want to learn blind find other people who are willing to go through that process.