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.
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!
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.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.
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...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.