Quote Originally Posted by Gwenkatsu View Post
Fun fact: The bots cheat like hell.

A year ago I played an alt through Endwalker. Had to do Mothercrystal for the MSQ, and it would just not pop. So I thought "why not" and tried it with Duty Support. I'm notoriously bad at mechanics, so I did it as always by the simple rule "stand where everybody else stands - except when you have a mark above your head, then stand somewhere else".
I played Ninja, so I made sure to stand next to Estinien. He's melee too, so what could go wrong?
Big AE happens, Estinien does not move. So I think to myself "must be one of those where you run into the AE cause the room floor rotates you out of it, or whatever". So I stand next to him, AE drops, I nearly die and eat a +damage debuff - Estinien takes 0 damage and no debuff.

So much for the NPCs being good at mechanics... or helping you to learn a fight. No, they just type IDDQD and call it a day.

Edit: I lost the last of my 3 or 4 lives when the boss was at 70% HP. Never tried Duty Support for Trials again.
Fun fact about that fight: Estinien is supposed to fail the first mechanic, and all the other comment about it. He then wises up and gets better afterwards reading the boss.
Y'shtola also flawlessly gets the waves done because she is able to read the direction the waves are going due to her 'aether sight', so everyone follows her lead during that.

It's not they are ignoring mechanics. The Scions are designed as people, and are also making mistakes at times and improve along the way.