Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
As always, I'd recommend ignoring the "trials were super easy, if you didn't clear them first time you have no brain" comments. The trials had some tricky mechanics. If it took you a while to figure them out or you died a lot that's fine. A lot of frustration can often stem from people reading so often that content is "braindead", wondering why they die so easily and getting annoyed both at themselves and the game. It's normal to die. Ultimate raiders die in Normal content all the time.

However, a few wipes are fine too. It means your story trial takes half an hour, which is a drop compared to the whole time taken from 1-90. You feel you accomplished something (or not if you don't work that way) but either way you get it done fine and move on with the game.
The concept that everything in the story must be faceroll is player invented. It's a combat based MMO. The devs have made it accessible in that you have unlimited Raises, healer lb3's, no enrage timer, lots of mechanics that don't kill you if you mess them up, but they still intend fights to be a puzzle to figure out and to kill you many times as you do solve them. The WoL having struggles against god-like foes is literally part of story, immersion and game fantasy. You aren't meant to just glance at them and win.
Sure. I die in normal content all the time because of not getting healed, or healers trapped focused elsewhere/raising instead of keeping the party alive.

Wipes alone don't clearly explain the picture, you can have the best players and all it takes is a healer or tank loss and things can go chaotic real fast.