So...what videos should I be watching?

[Mags]

I don't know.. I watch a video a couple times to get an idea about end game encounters but like someone mentioned, I need hands on experience to eventually accomplish it. I think Mr. Happy himself acknowledges the fact he is rather long winded but for all intent and purposes his video shows exactly what I want, the encounter itself.

[Clavaat]

I don't know.. I watch a video a couple times to get an idea about end game encounters but like someone mentioned, I need hands on experience to eventually accomplish it. I think Mr. Happy himself acknowledges the fact he is rather long winded but for all intent and purposes his video shows exactly what I want, the encounter itself.

His information is often outdated, or only works in very specific scenarios or teams. The long explanations do not do himself any justice, in that regard. He also has a habit of brute-forcing certain methods by simply over-DPSing, which is not always a viable solution. He either doesn't discuss, or glazes over alternative methods.

On topic:

I'd offer a different solution, OP. Read, as opposed to watch, to start. Understand the mechanics inside and out, as opposed to just trusting what someone tells you. Only refer to videos after completely understanding a writeup, in order to get positioning down. Watching videos makes it really easy to forget information or specific issues, because they are fed to you so quickly, so they shouldn't be the only source. Reading allows you to understand at your pace better than someone physically telling you something. This is just like school, where some people learn better through someone telling them, or reading on their own, or taking notes, etc.

As others have said, just practicing is the absolute best, as you will learn what works for you and your team.

[Mishini_Dracoto]

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I tend to do all of the things!

• I'm a very Active player, so whenever possible I learn fights on my own when they first come out / gossip with other players about how to do things better to get ahead / develop our own stategies.
• After a few weeks I start looking for video's especially if I know it's being cleared faster / more smoothly than I am / my group is.
• If there are parts of the fight I'm not really sure about / especially if a Video mentions a mechanic that I actually don't know about, then I pull up a written guide and give it a read simultaneously. Watch video, see new mechanic, press pause, read, rewind, rewatch, watch what the party is doing. (EG, if BRD pov, I might look at his party list and take note of what CD's a tank pops, and then see how much dmg the tank took)

I've grown away from watching Strat Video's, and more to clear video's, but closely analyzing the fight at the same time.

That being said, this is all coming from he guy whose been clearing T9 for what, 3 months now, and has never survived an entire fight (just as a lowly OT ta boot)

Since the first time we got to DB stage in T9, we cleared it. I get minimal practice time on that phase, that's m excuse and I'm sticking to it!

Last week, I died @2% b/c I assumed that I wanted to run the opposite direction from the first person with DB, I got 2nd DB marker . . . and I was wrong. Since My Group is putting down waypoints for me I have no real excuse, other than I go too comfortable and haven't reall learned the DB positioning properly as I'm trying to DPS as my WAR as much as possible.