getting to harder content/trying to imrpove

[Valence]

You can directly jump into coils, especially if you're not doing them minimum ilvl / no echo. The first tier is especially forgiving due to overgear and powercreep on top of easier fights overall. Coils are not harder than extreme trials but perhaps T9 at best which can be closer to savage stuff. This is the entry gate to challenging content (you can also do ARR ex trials or even later expansions as well).

If you think your mastery of a job toolkit isn't there yet, doing more casual content in order to train muscle memory and reactions is never a wrong thing to do. Freezing up when faced with new complex mechanic is normal, and probably healthier than someone tunneling on their rotation no matter what. When progging difficult content it's not necessarily bad to stop DPSing and focus on actually learning the mechanic first. Once you're past it, you can start doing your job things again during it the next times you get through.

But if you want to get better, the best way is just to jump into harder content. It's always going to be demanding enough that it will force you to improve, and you'll find the more casual content you're used to to become very trivial in comparison.

[Local_Custard]

The binding coils savage uses systems and mecanics many players complained were simply to hard. If you use it as a stepping stone, yes you will improve.. but it's genuinely so difficult to clear you might aswell jump into shiva savage (which Ironically was what I did) it took over a year to clear it but now I'm a very solid raider. People were still joining it because it was current content. This is another issue you'll have in coils - people. And that your job is only level 50. So your kit will be a brutal sanitised and maybe even unviable mascot of itself. Its better to start with endwalker ex - savage if you want to improve

Yeah I've been thinking of that. I'm going to go up in hardness in increments (binding coils min ilvl will happen before I do binding coild savage but first I do other content at min ilvl bc I'm all curious what that would look like. Newer content will likely not look too different compared to crystal tower min ilvl). I'll be looking to recruit people in my fc to try this tho.

You can directly jump into coils, especially if you're not doing them minimum ilvl / no echo. The first tier is especially forgiving due to overgear and powercreep on top of easier fights overall. Coils are not harder than extreme trials but perhaps T9 at best which can be closer to savage stuff. This is the entry gate to challenging content (you can also do ARR ex trials or even later expansions as well).

yeah I want to try them synced first for sure. Would help me get comfortable with the mechanics. Good to know this is a good stepping stone at least!

If you think your mastery of a job toolkit isn't there yet, doing more casual content in order to train muscle memory and reactions is never a wrong thing to do. Freezing up when faced with new complex mechanic is normal, and probably healthier than someone tunneling on their rotation no matter what. When progging difficult content it's not necessarily bad to stop DPSing and focus on actually learning the mechanic first. Once you're past it, you can start doing your job things again during it the next times you get through.

Ah. I have been told I won't be ready for savage content if I continue to freeze up... So I thought it was a bad habit of mine. I do tend to do that. On average it takes me 3 times to get comfortable with content I am unfamiliar with. Granted this number is for normal level of content. I cannot say how long it'll take me to learn savage or harder levels of content. Maybe double or triple that. Though, I have the benefit of having older hard (savage, extreme, ultimate) raids long figured out by other people so I can always look at those strategy guides.

But if you want to get better, the best way is just to jump into harder content. It's always going to be demanding enough that it will force you to improve, and you'll find the more casual content you're used to to become very trivial in comparison.

I can only hope that my trauma-induced perfectionist mindset will not prevent me from moving forward when I die more than 3 times (likely 12 if not dozens of times). Maybe Harder content will help me get comfortable with failing repeatedly. I tend to go defeatist very easily...

[sindriiisgaming]

I can only hope that my trauma-induced perfectionist mindset will not prevent me from moving forward when I die more than 3 times (likely 12 if not dozens of times). Maybe Harder content will help me get comfortable with failing repeatedly. I tend to go defeatist very easily

You should discard the idea of perfection immediately. It doesnt exist. It's a tredmil that you'll be chasing forever as your goals continously change. Eventually it will get to a point where you dont even recognise what you were originally after

[Somnolence]

Ah. I have been told I won't be ready for savage content if I continue to freeze up... So I thought it was a bad habit of mine. I do tend to do that. On average it takes me 3 times to get comfortable with content I am unfamiliar with. Granted this number is for normal level of content. I cannot say how long it'll take me to learn savage or harder levels of content. Maybe double or triple that. Though, I have the benefit of having older hard (savage, extreme, ultimate) raids long figured out by other people so I can always look at those strategy guides.

The trick for overcoming this is learning how scripted the encounters in this game actually are, so when you learn a raid it becomes just identical sequences of key presses and movement patterns.

For ARR and HW most mechanics are triggered based on boss HP %, but after SB its strict timeline.

You can get the feel for this by just doing enough content. Then you mind will learn how to map encounters in terms of "after this mech I can do 5 malefics then have to heal raidwide with these abilities then I have 3 malefics, dot refresh and 4 malefics until next mechanic" etc.

If you really want to start with old content, most datacenters should have discord communities that do old content synced or are beginner focused, don't know about NA ones specifically.