Observations From A Relatively New Player

[Korilynn]

This is why I tend to look up guides first (though the videos just bore me to tears, so I find them hard to watch)...it doesn't mean I'll remember everything, but it gives me something to look at really quick.

Thankfully on the Main story quests, all the teams (so far) have been "watch the scenes or fight, doesn't matter" of course, I fought, because I just felt bad when they fought and I was just watching the cutscenes

[PArcher]

I always at least gear check my party before deciding how I'm going to run the dungeon (serial tank here). If they look good, larger test pull. If not, I slow down the run.

If people say they're new and ask questions, I'll anser
If they ask to slow down, I will. But say nothing...I'm assuming you know what to do and can run just fine according to the gear you have.

[SekhmetM]

Explaining the content is fine and dandy, except it gets annoying when you need to do it for every single run you go on because of a new player who is either a brainless zombie tunnel-visioning idiot, someone who just doesn't care, and then the person who simply lacks the skill to even do the mechanics.

If you're new, and sane enough to play this game well, then do some research. You're not the first person to play this game. You don't need to reinvent the wheel.

[Anemone_Valesti]

Explaining the content is fine and dandy, except it gets annoying when you need to do it for every single run you go on because of a new player who is either a brainless zombie tunnel-visioning idiot, someone who just doesn't care, and then the person who simply lacks the skill to even do the mechanics.

If you're new, and sane enough to play this game well, then do some research. You're not the first person to play this game. You don't need to reinvent the wheel.

No....just No lol. Often times New comes with not knowing what is common Practice Bro. It wasn't until a few wipes on an EX that I learned watching Videos was a thing out of thinking to myself " There has got to be some kind of easier way to doing this ". Being new and having not experienced the difficulty...chances are that wont come to mind. Even then I didn't know that it was something that was common Practice among raiding until seeing it often in Party Finder Descriptions.

Thanks for Proving the OP point though. At the risk of coming down to that level...I got to say that watching a Guide of someone else (Who crazy enough, is most likely doing it without a guide) before even TRYING it a few times is the Brainless thing to do, and expecting the new to do so is just bad lol.

Sadly I watch guides before doing SOME of the stuff in this game (To Avoid Players Crap), and FOR ME Its not satisfying upon completing it. Did Shiva the other day though...got my face blown off by one of Shiva's attacks. I adapt so it only took 1 Wipe to down her...but boy did it feel good with beating her without some dude in a video telling me all her attacks, and where to stand exactly as if I couldn't put it together myself...

Point is, Expecting NEW Players to play content as if they have been playing it for X amount of time is some really Foolish Bleep.

[Dhex]

Blame Square for making us run the same stuff over and over ad nauseum to the point that speed runs are the muscle memory norm.

[PoxyPriceless]

I like speed runs when I'm, specifically, going for the tome reward, but I see what you mean. I had never done Copperbell Mines Hard until I saw I needed it for my ATMA book, so qued for it hoping for a leisurely stroll.

It seems like certain dungeons are tailor made for speed runs, and the folks I qued with were gunning to get it done fast.

Something I always do, and you might want to consider, is to watch a YouTube vid first before queing, just to make sure you understand all the mechanics.
MTQCapture has some great dungeon vids. They are fast, get right to the point and clearly explain the mechanics.

[Jamillion]

It helps to look up the mechanics beforehand if you can but barring that, if I'm tanking or healing and I see a new person I try to explain the fights as we come to them (especially as a tank since I set the pace). When you play an MMO you play with a whole community, some people in the community are more helpful or accommodating than others. It helps to join an FC, especially if you can run dungeons with them often and you meet a lot of really cool people. If you were on Lamia I'd invite you to mine, we even have a linkshell for new players to get help where people join as either teachers or students and teachers will drop whatever their doing to help a student.

[Eye_Gore]

Haven't seen this yet, unless I missed it so I'll throw it in here. There is always the party finder. I have yet to use it. Though I did party up with some vagabonds who were just roaming around outside Cutters Cry when I did it for my GC hunt. Guess they didn't want to use the DF. As soon as they saw me, "hey you going in there?", "I sure am", "take us with you", 'ok". Best and most fun dungeon run I have done yet.

[NoF2P]

Those vets are probably just "farming" the dungeon for the drops. Try to join a nice helpful FC and have fun doing dungeons.

[Aurora-Pendragon]

I'd rather meet nice players and take a little longer to complete a dungeon than bored vets who can't even say "hi" and rush trought everything.
When I play my PLD, I always take the time to explain mechanics ( even if english isn't my first language). I never get mad if we wipe. I remember this one time in Bray normal @ second boss, when I just said " don't forget to sleep the boss when the add spawn" and then, the healer stopped healing me and we all died.
After we respawned, s-he said s-he just froze while figuring how to sleep. I can imagine him-her panicking behind his-her screen and I couldn't get upset because we all had in our life this moment when we get flustered because of stress or fear. So I told him-her to take it easy, and relax, and only focus on healing me while my friend ( who is BLM) would take care of the boss. We ended the dungeon without any more wipe and I could felt s-he was really happy and more confident over his-her own skills.