Reminder for healers

[LilimoLimomo]

To be fair, you'd think they'd eventually learn when they die to mechanics after being rezzed while other party members just stand in the fire taking a short little break.

As someone who is friends with a lot of low skill players and has run user testing sessions for games, I would absolutely not think that. Folks who are high-functioning at games like us tend to vastly overestimate the potential of the overall gaming populace; we have so finely honed our ability to identify patterns and solve puzzles that it's hard for us to truly imagine the difference between our abilities and the abilities of others. This isn't a 1-to-1 analogy, but the vibe is very similar to this xkcd comic:



From my experience paying attention to less skilled players, I would say it's far more likely that your average player is barely noticing anything that their teammates are doing outside of "where do I stand to not die". And when these players die, they are more likely to be feeling intense emotions like shame that will cloud their ability to learn anything.

The TL;DR is that it's easy to overestimate what your average player is going to pick up on, and that to truly engage with the reality at play we all need to lower our expectations. Which, to be clear, isn't to say that players can't learn these things; the game just has to be designed in a way that effectively teaches these concepts, and right now it is not doing that.