Suggestion: update and make mandatory Hall of novice tutorial

[Roda]

Really, the game could just use a better system of tutorials overall. When it comes to AoEs, as an example, the game isn't really very clear about how exactly they work anyway. It's sort of left up to the player to either parse the tooltip (which usually requires some pre-knowledge of the game's mechanics), just try it (which new/nervous players are unlikely to due when they feel the pressure is on), or hunt out training dummies to puzzle it out themselves. It shouldn't be up to the player to puzzle out the specifics of conals vs columns vs character oriented AoEs vs target oriented AoEs when the game just gives fairly meaningless distance numbers as guidance.

I'm reminded of Black Desert Online where, when you go into your skill tree, it actually shows you little videos of how moves work and how they can/should be chained together. Not that FF14 is anywhere near as intricate in it's combat as BDO can be but if a action oriented game like BDO can do it there's no reason why FF14 can't do it with it's fewer moves and simpler systems.

I mean it's not really that dense.. Read tool tips -> single target does 200 damage, aoe does 90 damage -> basic math and understanding how shapes work -> use aoe when 3 targets or more are close enough to get hit, otherwise use single target. All the information we need is available as soon as we need it (sometimes before) and he fact that some people get as far as they do in the game without understanding something basic like 220+330+480 < (3+x)(120+140+120) is just mind boggling @@. Like, I thought it was common form to read a tooltip of a skill when you get it. Not doing so would be like going into a d&d session and casting fireball in an area full of your teammates and going "oopsie I didn't know it did radial damage!"