Do you like going into new fights raw?

[Ruri]

One battle in particular I went into with completely no knowledge was Ultima HM. It was so much fun to learn and easy to pickup what to do on various phases. Other more complex fights I have researched before even stepping in (Second Coil)

[AiChyan]

Dungeons I like to go in not knowing anything, especially early on in patches. Primals and raids though, nope. No fun at all for me personally to go in blind, and I'd feel like a burden and just have zero enjoyment.

and I can't stand it when I'm asked to explain a primal ex fight or a raid :/ especially when someone demands a clear explanation. If someone is too lazy to look up something, they might as well expect me to be too lazy to explain that very same thing to them. So I just give a short summary and hope for the best.

[Astralos]

Always raw.

[Appleh4x]

My party goes into new content "fresh" for like 1 wipe just to laugh on the first new mechanic wipe then we go online to learn the mechanic. This is not a single player game, MMOs are designed to have content that takes an unreasonable amount of time to discover the patterns of for the sake of prolonging content, so online guides are just a way around artifical roadblocks. If you aren't looking up the mechanics online, someone in your party is and relaying the info to you unless you're in Blue Gartr, so you aren't discovering the mechanics yourself anyways and should get off your high horse.

[Tsuwu]

Depends on how many adventurers have been inside the content beforehand.
If it's snow pure, of course! Nothing like the first time.
One or two, sure, content is still probably good for raw exploration, I'll risk it.
Four and up, always make sure to use some sort of protection...in the form of video guides.

/nothingawkwardhere

[Sallian]

For four man content I generally try to run it blind with FC or LS people but if i'm relying on pugs i'll watch a vid first because alot of the people you meet in duty finder are not people you want to spend alot of time with I seem to struggle getting people to say hello nowadays.

For 8 man and above I always watch a vid some of those mechanics are not obvious and would take way too long to figure out blind, besides as a tank I feel kinda responsible I am meant to lead the way after all.

[Zanmato]

Yes, but wearing a condom.

[Kayo]

Just curious as to who likes going into new fights with no idea what's going on. Me personally I don't like being an MP sponge so I read up on it or watch a video so I have an idea of what to do.

What about you guys?

Id much prefer to go in blind and figure things out, you know, how one usually plays and beats game content. Unfortunately MMO's are the only genre where its noraml and even expected to 'cheat' using guides and what not. Its not even considered cheating with the players, they call it "learning" the fights, lol. If I were to read a guide on say The Last of Us, FFXIII or any other type of game id feel pretty stupid in the end. Not MMO's! Nope, and if you dont read/watch guides for MMO's... everyone else makes sure you feel "pretty stupid" for not cheating. And the worst part of all this is MMOs are just about the easiest @#^$ing games to play.

..... /sigh

[Dagger_32]

Id much prefer to go in blind and figure things out, you know, how one usually plays and beats game content. Unfortunately MMO's are the only genre where its noraml and even expected to 'cheat' using guides and what not. Its not even considered cheating with the players, they call it "learning" the fights, lol. If I were to read a guide on say The Last of Us, FFXIII or any other type of game id feel pretty stupid in the end. Not MMO's! Nope, and if you dont read/watch guides for MMO's... everyone else makes sure you feel "pretty stupid" for not cheating. And the worst part of all this is MMOs are just about the easiest @#^$ing games to play.

..... /sigh

This x92849238492384

I will never understand everyone's guide dependency. Put the guide/video/walk through down and PLAY the game. Learn for yourself. This guide nonsense drives me crazy.

[Ecks007]

Id much prefer to go in blind and figure things out, you know, how one usually plays and beats game content. Unfortunately MMO's are the only genre where its noraml and even expected to 'cheat' using guides and what not. Its not even considered cheating with the players, they call it "learning" the fights, lol. If I were to read a guide on say The Last of Us, FFXIII or any other type of game id feel pretty stupid in the end. Not MMO's! Nope, and if you dont read/watch guides for MMO's... everyone else makes sure you feel "pretty stupid" for not cheating. And the worst part of all this is MMOs are just about the easiest @#^$ing games to play.

..... /sigh

You know they do make Guides for all manner of games. I don't know how well that business fares these days, what with the readily available internet guides. But when I was growing up it was perfectly normal to buy guides to video games. Brady Games got a little of my money (or maybe it was my parent's money) back in the day.

Sometimes a game guides were actually a pretty fun read. I have an awesome guide for Lunar:SSSC for PS1. Thing even came with stickers to put on your memory cards.