An alternative idea to allowing parsing: The License Board

[Dotsusama]

And this isn't even getting into the comparison I was making to the story. Dungeon time, leveling time, questing time, cutscene time, and whatever else adds up to a lot more than 26 hours.

Except you're not removing those hurdles in any way, you're just adding another one between players and the content they find rewarding. No thanks. I think something ought to be done, but this is not it. I do not, nor do I think anyone seriously wants to put content behind tests, much less that the dev team spend who knows how many hours creating this system in the first place.

[fm_fenrir]

Stuff like this would work best in something like Rift's Chronicles system (allowing solo queue for guildhest-style content), but I don't know how overloaded SE's instance server is these days. That said, trying to reinforce mechanics by making the player do them to win doesn't work as well as setting a nebulous goal and telling the player to have fun. I think adding dummies that regen/lose HP at fixed rates to simulate DPS/HPS checks would be more effective at reinforcing the #gitgud habits you want people to learn.

edit: Sadly, I don't know how to create a dummy that makes tanks learn to #gitgud, because there's a whole lot of moving parts to being a good tank...

[Jxnibbles]

I think having gear, Mounts gated behind this is a bad idea.
Maybe food, a bit of gil, potions?
Honestly if people really wanted to learn they would actually practice or ask people they know that are good at a specific class.
I recently got Bard to 50 and I asked a friend who plays Bard in A3 to help see if I was doing the rotation right and what I could work on. Mind you I tell them to stop me if I mess up.
However a lot of the player base just doesn't try, the player has to want to improve themselves.

[Critical-Limit]

Snip.

You're auto grouping forever bads with bads who don't know their bads. Plenty of people don't do research, and id argue a much larger percent of bad players would do the right thing if it was shown to them in a private environment. Since we now live in a world where feelings must always be positive. Theyll feel much more comfortable getting tips from the game via trial than someone criticizing them to do it the optimized way. I just fear some trials may not be optimal, and these players will copy what the game taught them then elitist will still be upset cuz there is a better rotation out and the one they use is outdated.