How you learnt you primal/coil fight?

[Garlyle]

For the high tier content (EX Primals, coil), I've used MTQcapture - her videos are fantastic at explaining the fights, and while a lot of them have a whole lot going on you at least see everything and can be like "oh! That thing popping up, I'm supposed to do this, right?" ; you can always ask your first group for clarity on things.

(I get the whole 'go in blind' mentality btw, but if you're going to start by just asking someone to explain before the fight begins, please try looking it up yourself first or asking players before queueing up - there are amazing resources like the above that will teach you more than a few garbled lines of attempted explanation from party members, nevermind the like 15 minute delay while we try to explain when we could be getting in actual practice.)

As for getting actual experience, groups with my Free Company are vastly preferred, although if that's not an option I'll also hawk over Party Finder groups. Learning are preferred for first experiences, and generally I find that if you've spent a couple hours in learning groups without success or have come really close, mentioning that to the leader of a group that's looking for a clear party will usually get you a pass. "Haven't cleared Titan EX but have survived through a full final phase cycle, can I come along?"

[Moqi]

For the high tier content (EX Primals, coil), I've used MTQcapture - her videos are fantastic at explaining the fights, and while a lot of them have a whole lot going on you at least see everything and can be like "oh! That thing popping up, I'm supposed to do this, right?" ; you can always ask your first group for clarity on things.

I use her vidoes too! They're great, concise but with all the info.

After that, I sometimes watch the kill video (if it's linked) mostly to get some tips on what their WHM is doing, and then I start PF training groups. I got my Levi and Mog Ex kill that way, but for T5-6-7, Garuda and Ramuh I had to ask my FC because training groups were never going anywhere past certain phases and it's impossible to join a kill group even if you're confident about the fight because of all the "myth message=disband" parties.