Quote Originally Posted by Ranaku View Post
The game teaches you everything you have to know.
The only thing the game gives you is:
- raw potencies without any modifiers
- flashy frames for combo actions to tell you which one to press next

That's it. It doesn't give you information on:
- animation lock of oGCDs and thus clipping vs weaving
- caster tax
- slidecasting
- many modifier values (fairy potencies, tank potencies, AF/ UI potencies)
- main stat values
- substat values/ tiers
- which skills are affected by certain buffs, e.g. some RDM oGCDs and Embolden, fairy skills and Fey Illumination etc.
- how party buffs stack
- which skills are unaffected by SkS/ SpS

The difference between someone only knowing the first part and someone also knowing the second part is huge.