Mediocrity should NOT be the standard for players in any content.

[Valic]

I am going against your argument that we need them (solo content as a learning tool) to begin with. We don't. So you moving the goal post doesn't dispute this at all.

Also telling someone to watch a guide in a learning party is also mediocrity. People running to the meta strat instead of teaching your party how to handle a mechanic is lazy. That said its not bad for them to watch one but getting upset at people who don't and are there to learn at a LEARNING party show the other spectrum of subscribing to mediocrity.

I should also mention is again with the higher clear rate in Japan, PFs are learning tools, and DF are clearing tools where this is done in the opposite manner for other areas. It is done this way so people have the time to explain mechanics to execute them correctly so they can handle random queues. Here, people form parties and expect peopld tp have been hand fed the info from their favorite Youtuber.

Keep in mind I am not making arguments against PFs that explain their intention or parties for EX or Savage that state they are past learning phases and would like to clear certain using strategies.

Also the Wander Palace is a bit of an misnomer explaining mechanics because while it WAS one of the few times it may have told you what to handle DOOM the problem was the game had DOOM handled differently and before they finally did a QoL change on what could be cleansed it was a guessing game. Same wirh player marks.

We do, and that's our differing opinions on it :P.

You are also massively misinterpreting my thread if you're assuming suggesting a player watches a guide briefly is enforcing mediocrity. Not every guide = META I hope you realize. There's in fact many online people follow that aren't the META. I also repeat, no where in this thread am I demanding or asking people should be forced to do the most optimal/perfection possible.

Again, the JP thing isn't an excuse for the NA and it still sounds like you're talking strictly about savage content at this rate.

That QoL change is good though imo, since it encourages learning than guessing.