Quote Originally Posted by necrosis View Post
Why is it everyone elses job to teach the lazy how to do content? This is not September 2013. There is tones of info online.
Lazy/bad players are still going to be lazy and bad regardless of how many videos they've watched or how many times the fight is explained to them.

Long rant incoming:

Case in point: I went into Turn 6 for the first time. I didn't watch any videos (still haven't). Along with me was another person who was also going in for the first time, but this person watched Myzztec's video. With each wipe, I learned something new. I learned how briars worked. I learned how to avoid devours. I learned what to do when I got honeyed. I made progress. The person who watched the video? They were lost. Even though they watched a video, they still had to have everything explained to them a couple different ways, and they still had trouble. "That's different than the video," was said many times. Watching a video did not save the group any time, and it did not help this person learn anything about the fight.

The most fun I ever had playing this game, hands down, was the first time beating Ifrit hard mode back in 1.19 (at the time the most difficult fight in the game). Now, if you never had a chance to play 1.x, I can tell you -- and I'm sure everyone that did play it will agree with me -- that Ifrit hard mode today is a complete joke compared to 1.19...borderline insulting. My group didn't watch any videos. There weren't any videos. We worked at it every night for almost a week. With every wipe we got a little closer or learned something new, and every now and then we'd get him down to 2 or 3 percent health before wiping. Then we finally won. One of the group had recorded it on his Twitch stream, and I wish I could find where it was so you could hear our reactions on Ventrilo when we finished him off. It was frustrating, torturous even, but the payoff in the end was incredible. We rode that high for days, and it still makes me smile when I think about it. A meaningless accomplishment in a silly video game two years ago still brings me joy.

That's why I won't watch videos. And, no, I'm not going to put up a new learning party in the party finder if someone else already has a learning PT forming with a spot I can fit into. That is a waste of time.