Quote Originally Posted by Deculture View Post
This is for sure the mindset for NA (and maybe EU?) DF, but the JP datacenter DFs are treated as "clear" parties where participants are expected to have knowledge of the fight ahead of time (to not inconvenient the rest of the party) even if they've never actually done it before.
This way of doing things always made far more sense to me. The way I see it, treating DF as a place for learning fights just turns into a vicious circle: people who are looking to clear content will simply stop using the DF and go to PF instead, meaning that DF ends up consisting mostly of inexperienced players with very few experienced players to help out, which just makes it even harder for those players to get clears.

Personally, I don't touch DF anymore for anything other than roulettes. While I'm happy to help new players learn fights, I want it to be something I entered the party knowing I was going to be doing, not something that gets sprung on me as a surprise when I'm trying to clear something for whatever reason.