Keeping Content Hard and Helping People Learn

[Shurrikhan]

<Mawlzy doesn't play enough content to have even tested out whether she can learn; she said she typically only plays through MSQ dungeons once each.>

<I play quite a lot of other content with similar "move here"/"don't be here" mechanics and, between the lot of them, there's more than enough evidence to suggest that I'm not improving at that kind of thing and am not likely to improve even with dozens more hours of practice. I'll see this problem even when farming unsynched EXs.>

Yes we get it, you one shot level 50 primals and ran eden once for the story unsynced. You aren't proving me wrong here.

Why assume that they were level 50s and one-shot rather that that they may indeed have had some mechanics before going down??? Eden, for instance, is level 80. This is solo. It's not going to die before a single mechanic goes off.

And all this just to, what, try to refute that another player has already has actually seen enough dynamo/chariot/grid/tower mechanics to know informedly that they're bad at said mechanics?

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I mean, look at where this convo began...

I think part of the problem we're facing is that a single mechanic now dominates fights: responding rapidly to (often obscure) tells and moving to the safe spot.

Anyone playing a game will instinctively try to resolve that mechanic. In that sense they are trying their best. But it's also a mechanic that is difficult for a subset of players (for multiple reasons).

Many "good" players seem genuinely baffled by how "bad" some others are in PvE in this game. I'm convinced it mostly stems from this DDR trend.

...only to then prove Mawlzy's point: It is so baffling to some players that anyone could be bad at DDR that they'd rather narrowly construe and thereby dismiss other users' entire span of experience with the game. (And for what? Just to defend mechanics becoming increasingly reduced to DDR?)

(No, I'm not including Shistar, etc., in that. They've been fair with this.)