Quote Originally Posted by lolnotacat View Post
But If you manage to get to level cap and the end of the MSQ, by that point you should be able to meet most of those expectations
I get why you'd think that, but when you actually look at the bare minimum that's required to complete the MSQ, there's almost nothing there. You can complete your dungeons and trials by having your lifeless body dragged to the finish line by more skilled players. Which means that solo content is the only thing that truly tests players. And the bulk of what solo instances test players on is "when you see this, stand here" and "when you see that, don't stand there". And when that turns out to be too hard, you can play them on Very Easy difficulty.

When solo instances have any kind of mechanic that's more complex than that, there's always pop-up text that tells the player what to do, because the devs know they haven't taught players anything so they can't expect them to know anything.


...And as a bit of an aside, your average controller player probably doesn't even know how to look at their buffs; it's a surprisingly inaccessible and inconvenient process to do so (as someone who actually wants to look at their buffs and debuffs, it truly sucks).