Quote Originally Posted by Tint View Post
yeah true, there are some ice spirits in stone- and dusk vigil where you can use dark mind and uhm... ... ... ... ...lots... of other opportunities to learn how to use dark mind before hitting 70!

i play DRK since 2015 and still have no idea how to tell what is magical and what is physical. i know when i parry it's physical. and when i use dark mind and didn't get one shottet it's probably magical... or not... who knows? hard to tell without a combat analysis program. at least there are guides and kill videos where i can see when people use dark mind for tank busters...

but dark mind is basically non existant for casuals in casual content, because it's simply too difficult to use it properly due to the fact that the game doesn't tells you what damage is incoming and how properly you are mitigating.
My DRK is level 60. So by your logic, I don't know how to use Dark Mind. Let's never mind that my DRK was 60 before 4.0. Let's never mind that many players have friends to run outdated content synced or at min ilv. Do you really believe that players are incapable of reading a tooltip, and learning how to play the game in anything but savage/ultimate?

If I'm healing a DRK and he/she throws up Dark Mind against the elementals in Stone/Dusk Vigil or Pharos Sirius, guess what I am going to know about that player? I am going to know that they know how to use Dark Mind. No, it isn't necessary to use it here, I can heal through the damage easily if they don't. But they fact that they used it there, and only there tells me they know what they're doing. It also tells me they don't go complacent in casual content, which is a really good way to get my comm. Leading by example is a really great way to get players to learn things properly, and it makes no difference which content this is.

Learning what attacks are physical/magic based comes with experience. This doesn't apply to all attacks but generally speaking, auto attacks are physical, and if the mob has to cast it, good chance it is magical. But it doesn't take a genius to deduce one attack from the other. What the game doesn't offer immediately is available in hindsight. You as a player, have the ability to record your playthroughs and look at your battle logs. You don't, and shouldn't wait until level 70 and toughing it out with Kefka God mode to do this. Having Dark Mind on muscle memory should happen WELL before that.