How Many Of You DO NOT Watch Videos Of Fights?

[Fynlar]

I don't necessarily wait to watch before I *win* but I usually at least attempt the fight enough to the point where I'm looking for clarification on whatever mechanic is troublesome.

Watching a video without any experience of the fight doesn't really help someone like me at all. It just doesn't jive with my learning style and I don't really gain anything out of it, and I still end up fumbling around just as much as if I hadn't watched it.

[raela]

Never videos.. Too much time and don't care to have to listen. I read at least one if not multiple guides, though.

[DracotheDragon]

i have done every fight in the game blind except one, T5, T5 was the first coil battle i did since i was filling in a spot for a friends static so i had to watch a fight to understand what was going to happen we didn't win o3o but then i joined there static

[PArcher]

Big perk to running stuff early; can screw up a lot and no one cares (because they're screwing up too )

[LoliNekoAmaya666]

How many of you do not watch videos of others battles, before winning yourself?

I ask out of curiosity, wondered as to the reasons of others do, and to hear their own epic achievements.

I do not watch videos mainly cuz videos dont teach me anything i learn on physical memory which is impossible to get by videos and outside titan i never have any isssues and only reason why i have issue with titan is that titan IS A 0 SKILL extreme primal its only based on how good your Connection is

[Krindor]

I usually try to avoid watching videos, instead I read the abilities and the strategies, while reading spoils a bit of the fight it's still only words, the visuals is still a surprise and epic the first time. Though most of the time I don't read either, especially when it's the first week, I didn't watch/read anything about any fight released in HW until I been in them at least once.

[TruebladeNuke]

Depends on the genre of game we're talking about here. Since this is the FFXIV forum though, imma assume in terms of MMO games, since my answer to single player games is simple anyway, which is "Never".

It depends on how old the content is. I'll only watch videos if the content is a month old or older. (With MAYBE an exception here and there) If said content is any younger than that, then I'm going in blind. Course, given just how unusually fast people insist on throwing up tutorial guides and all that just after a day or three after the release of content, a week at most is suddenly old content to most people these days. And mind you, I only do this for EX primals and the harder optional raid dungeons. Though I'm aiming to be among those who are charging in blind into the new 24-man raid content, despite not having done Alexander yet.

So again, a month has to have passed before I consider it older content to watch videos on. That's just the way I am.

[Adire]

I read at least one guide and watch at least one guide because I don't want to be a liability for my group more than I have to be as a new person.

I don't always need guides, but better safe than sorry. And better to be informed before going in rather than make people either have to sit there and explain what I could have read or watched beforehand, wipe because of me, or carry me through.

[Amiaze]

Big perk to running stuff early; can screw up a lot and no one cares (because they're screwing up too )

Yeah, this is why I run new dungeons as early as possible. I do not watch videos for anything that isn't an EX Primal or Coil/Alexander. I like to figure things out myself and guess at it. That's partly what makes the game so much fun.

[NebulaRose]

I almost always watch a video before a Trial/Raid/Dungeon that's new to me. I don't like going in blind.