Quote Originally Posted by IgnisFatuus View Post
on a personal note, I find it absolutely ridiculous to have to watch 15 minute videos to just "get" the mechanics of a fight, because theyre so impossibly obscure or tightly scripted that you can't just learn them by doing without 7 other people spitting venom at you. i'm very oldschool about that. watch video or GTFO is making me ask "why do i play this again".
Because without having a tight, interesting puzzle box of an encounter they're almost always dropped within a single night by any group of merit. There needs to be more done to educate outside of videos (which other games do) but the learning curve is what it is unless this entire genre decides to stop latching on to WoW (which, while I like WoW, I'd have like to have seen awhile ago)

The only other solution is vague, EQ-style sinks, which is what the OP wants, what FFXI fans want, and want everyone else on Earth doesn't want.