I dont have any delusions not true I see people dying to mechanics every time I do any extreme primal, while people die in dungeons, its not the same as when people die in the extreme primals. But for you to say that you don't need in game practice and to just watch a guide is just silly , dps can push phases in fights but it will not keep you alive. Its the execution of doing the mechanics in a fight every time I que up for anything with extreme on it , mechanics are what kill people.
Its the biggest issue in the game of course someone who raids and thinks that top dps is the answers to all things will see differently, but you can have amazing numbers on a training dummy but if you have trouble with mechanics then you will die this cant be disputed. So like I said the op in her original post said not one single thing about dps numbers she said that people where dying to the mechanics of the fight, and for those whom think mechanics are simple then of course every fight will seem easy if you have amazing dps numbers. But at the end of the day if you cant do mechanics , then you are going to fail every time, and you learn mechanics in game not from watchin a video or guide I watch a guide for everything I do. Mr happy , mrs tech every piece of content that Ive done Ive watched a guide for, but I didnt learn any fights from them I knew what to expect but I learned a fight in game in the instance.
So yea if people aren't doing content no matter how well someone can do their proper rotation , if you dont know mechanics of a fight you will fail 9 times out of 10. I can give you tons of examples Ive seen where tryin to do mechanics and dpsing effectively at the same time doesnt cut it alone. For example the dps check in shiva extreme if people fail that the first time they easily do it the next, people start dying when shes in staff form and the ice is still falling from the sky, or when people dont move in time for her bow form. Titan extrme nothin to do with dps, landslide kills most people that die in that fight they simply fall off the platform, Levitan extreme Ive never seen a single person die until the gates come off the boat and they have to start dodging him not because they cant dps him because he actually cant even be attacked while hes doing this. Gaurda extreme nothing to do with dps its tanks not separating the two adds properly or not doing the spiny swap properly or dying to the tornados. When I did ravana people fall off the platform, and die thats not a dps check thats just reaction time to mechanics again. Ramuh extreme people die from not doing the mechanics in the fight properly like not breaking people out of charmed correctly or not gathering orbs properly. Its kinda a given that you have to dps , heal , and tank during these fights but if people could do mechanics properly even if your dps is low you can still clear a fight, if you cant do mechanics then you are going to fail every time.
So mechanics come first dps comes second because you have to not die from mechanics to dps in the first place. Like I said its all about perception if you come from the mindset that the mechanics in the game is easy then you want see any type of challenge, but if you accept the reality that what people die from is the mechanics then maybe you will understand that the only way they will learn is through practice and people willing to be in these instances and do the content as it was intended. You brought dps up the op said nothing about dps in their opening post they went on a rant about how people died to as they said brain dead mechanics.