Quote Originally Posted by Alukah View Post
While I agree with you, I also agree with the person you're quoting, the way combat was designed kinda encourages this behavior.
Again, I'd love to see a fight that requires it. I haven't found one yet. And its simply because the person who posted the video had to do it the 'old fashioned way'. What makes them so godlike compared to the rest of us? Because they have a paid version of FRAPS? Seriously, thats the only difference between the poster of the video and the viewer. The one who posted the video has FRAPS. That and they were willing to try the dungeon first without viewing a video.

If more players were willing to learn the fights by experience and not through muscle memorying the fights from a video. The issue would largely go away. Because more people would have an intimate knowledge of the fight (they know what to do and definitely what NOT to do). And by proxy they will be better prepared to teach a new player how to do it. Which in itself makes those players less reliant on videos and means they are less of a requirement.

Seriously. The reason people tell newbies to watch a video is because they don't know the ins and outs of the fight themselves. They only watched a video. They aren't helping newbies, and they aren't helping themselves. Learning fights without videos means similar mechanics that pop up in later 'endgame' fights become easier to deal with. Most of the dungeons I have done I either pioneered myself or had someone over TS explain it (who they themselves pioneered it too). That made the Hardmode Dungeons really easy to deal with for us.

Now, this isn't to say the videos are a detriment themselves. They're a great tool if used properly. But we're not using them as tools. We're using them as crutches. When someone explains a fight to me, and I glance through a video I can see what the attack looks like. I don't need the video to say do this, when this happens. But its not a requirement and if I'm already in a dungeon without looking at a video, I'm not going to waste time looking at it. Peeps need heals, now.

Chances are if I'm going blind into a dungeon and one person in there has pioneered it. 9 times out of 10 I'll do fine. And even if I soup sandwich it up, I'll learn what went wrong and compensate for it. And I'm no crazy godlike expert at this game, which means everyone can do this.