Quote Originally Posted by Reinfeld View Post
This is the only MMO I've played where that's true, and it's partly the community, but also partly bad design (particularly in the case of hard fights).
I'd like to know which fights are so badly designed that the developers posted videos on how to do it. Thing is.. there isn't any. Someone had to figure out the fight to make the video which means if someone else figured it out. Everyone else can.

To be quite honest, this is the first game where I've ever considered watching videos for. And its not because it needs it. But because of how readily available they are. That's the players putting up those videos. That doesn't mean the game needs it. I've already proven that by running some dungeons with some friends where we went in blind. Did we wipe once or twice on some of the bosses? Sure. But we still completed them within 30-45 minutes. We didn't nor did we want to watch videos, it was fun figuring them out. We came up with our own strategies.

There IS a bit of personal responsibility on the playerbase. A bit. I know personal responsibility is a scary thing, but you all got to suck through it. Its all on the community. There's nothing in this game that is too hard for the players to get by unless they have a physical limitation on manual dexterity.

People need to leave my newbies alone. Period. They're new, help them. Guide them. If you all know the fight so well, then this should be easy. If all you did was muscle memory those fights by watching video then the newbie isn't the issue, the issue is that you're useless to everyone else if a patch changes a fight mechanic.

If you can't teach a fight, then you don't know the fight either. You're worse then the newbie who doesn't know the fight. They can at least learn and absorb it like a sponge. You can't.