Quote Originally Posted by Eien713 View Post
And that's why you fail Ex trials in DF more often than not. Because people expect the fights to be easy and a faceroll, but then when it turns out they're not and you can't be carried through them, they either leave or the party fails the duty. I'll mention one of my Mentor Roulette experiences. I believe we got Sephirot this one time. That fight is awful to explain via text because there's so much going on, so I asked people to look up a guide while we waited for members (some people had left). I was willing to explain things or answer questions if people had any after looking up a guide. There was this one person who was watching a guide after I asked, and they commented that "Holy crap! There are so many things going on in the fight." I answered that yeah, which is why a guide (preferably a video) was way better than walls of text. I asked the others again to please watch a guide and said that the fight wasn't easy, and you know what 2 or 3 of them did? They bailed. If this doesn't prove they weren't expecting to make an effort, I don't know what does. I should also mention they hadn't said a single word the whole time, so it's not like they wanted to do the fight blind and I was against it.
This is basically my exact reason I advocate for removing EX content from the DF. The average player (at least in NA) simply isn't prepared for that kind of content. It's and exercise in futility.