Raiders, why do you consider raiding just not memory games ?

[Red-thunder]

Also, blind progging to figure out mechanics now is often just recording your gameplay, and watching it back in slow motion so that you can see:
"oh, that's the donut AoE."
"oh, it's doing a spread there."
"oh, that mechanic means a stack"
"oh, that applies a status effect vuln so we have to be separated"
etc.

So a guide just stops you wasting your time wiping for hours doing the slow motion playback to discover what is the stack, spread, etc.

Yes. People think it's a miracle cure-all but blind prog is only fun for one tier.

Plus modern blind prog is basically non-blind with how much they reuse ideas and mechanics.

[UkcsAlias]

Yes. People think it's a miracle cure-all but blind prog is only fun for one tier.

To me its fun the first day on extremes. Just because of the discovery aspect. A lot of the things are well predictable when you see them. No baiting or a lot of hidden/short debuffs, almost everything has a clear cue.

Its also a good practice because while a guide can be nice, getting the feeling for general flow of mechanics is a good thing to build, and blind progs can do this well. But that realy only works on day 1, as there is always that person that already watched a guide instantly explaining mechanics. By doing this, you are more likely to catch onto mechanics even after watching a guide, as a lot of fights do involve visual cues which in savages become even more important.

Just watching a guide doesnt realy train you to watch for these, blind progs do. And best of all: people wont complain in these unless you are realy bad at it. The expectation is that you dont know anything yet. A good blind prog party will kick the moment someone tries to explain a later mechanic that you have barely seen at all. Thats not blind at that point anymore, thats spoiling. And this only works on day 1.

This is also an aspect i dislike of savages. You can do 1/5/9 blind on day 1. But rarely do you beat it early enough to go for 2/6/10 blind, most of the time when you reach those there are already very extensive raid plans that people demand. Its that bad i dont even care about blind progging in raids. Its only causing harm in the long run as it delays the completing even more, and once behind its a huge pain to catch up. The longer you wait, the more of the decent players already completed the raid.