Savage guides are a nuisance (when posted this early)

[gllt]

You should tell that to players who want content creators to stop making guides and those who think our sense of fun is "warped" if we don't like playing blind.

Don't get your feelings hurt so bad over words on the Internet..?

[Reinha]

Don't get your feelings hurt so bad over words on the Internet..?

What about my reply bothered you so much?

I think the ones I hate the most is when they're like "fresh not blind please watch video"...

Damn, I can't imagine having hatred towards groups who are playing how they like and minding their own business.

[Volgia]

Damn, I can't imagine having hatred towards groups who are playing how they like and minding their own business.

Well I'm glad I gave you a head start!

[TaleraRistain]

I play for fun. Looking up everything before I even start isn't. It's that simple. Some people have such a warped view of what playing a game is it's comical.

Savage can still be fun even if you know the moves to the dance because then you have the practice to perfect the moves to the dance. Blind prog is also fun. I did that last week with my static. I've progged ahead of them so this week I'm helping them with weak spots if they want help or helping preserve their blind experience if they don't. But it doesn't mean I'm having any less fun because I'm working with them on a fight I know and cleared.

[Nitelancer]

Hector strats

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Hector strats

THIS! I agree HECTOR STRATS

[PercibelTheren]

I play for fun. Looking up everything before I even start isn't. It's that simple. Some people have such a warped view of what playing a game is it's comical.

The thing about fun is that it's highly subjective. The fights in FFXIV are choreographed dances and not everyone is able to figure out the steps on their own. Unless the fight design changes to make things more unpredictable, guides will be the way to go. Failing over and over because you don't get an obscure mechanic is something a lot of people, myself included, don't enjoy.

The static that I'm in likes to watch different guides and then pick and choose, sometimes also modify, until we find a strat that works for us and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[PercibelTheren]

Hector strats

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Hector because I feel like he overcomplicates a lot of things but his strats do seem to be the most widely used.

[CamuiKushi]

In Hector's defence, he was just a dude doing stuff for his static and then realised "I should probably put this on YouTube". He's basically doing a public service by putting stuff he'd be making out there for others to benefit from.

I understand the frustration of wanting to do stuff blind and not being able to. I finished DT MSQ about 3 weeks after the expansion dropped and I wanted to go into the final trial semi-blind. I was fortunate enough to have people drop into PF who were cool with letting me mess up and have that first-try experience.
But if I went into DF I wouldn't expect the same, ya know?
A static dedicated to blind prog def sounds like the best bet.

[Andevom]

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Hector because I feel like he overcomplicates a lot of things but his strats do seem to be the most widely used.

He's not the best, but he's fairly easy to follow. Nowhere near as convoluted as Mr. Happy, so I'm glad someone dethroned him.