A mentor kicked my dog!

[Feidam]

I mean.... if all you retain from a video is a name... you sound a bit basic. You should atleast pick up on the flow of the encounter watching a guide and I mean a GOOD guide. Not the crap Mr.Happy dishes out day 1 that rambles on for 30 minutes for a 10 minute fight.

This is false.

You may not learn everything from a video, however, you can easily learn what happens at what time by watching a video. For example the boss rotation. If you are a healer you can easily learn the rotation of the boss by watching a video so you know exactly when to pop your strongest heals without missing a beat.

At the same time, if you are a tank, you can learn the correct time for a tank buster to pop your mitigation and avoid taking maximum damage. You don't need to be a genius to learn that, you just need to watch a video about the boss fight and have fairly basic brain functionality which I'm pretty sure everyone has.

I do this all the time. I regularly watch videos on Savage things for example so I know what the mechanics will be and I remember them and know what to do. The speed at which I react and do things increases as I go through the dungeon.

If I can do it, so can you, and person A, and B, and C, and everyone else.

Except you are completely wrong on some accounts. Some folks learn just by seeing. You can show another person 100x and they will not learn without actually doing it. Please read up on learning and teaching styles. There are many studies and papers written on this subject. It will help you understand that just because something is easy for you or works for you doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. So many of the responses on these forums are egocentric.