Learning Party in PF

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I've seen it a couple of ties and I used to be truly baffled by it. I mean, learning group would imply learning wouldn't it? Why require the entire group to know the fight? If you know the whole fight and want your group to know the whole fight, then you should be organizing a clear group. I always found learning groups with these kinds of requirements rather ridiculous.

However...

After having several experiences joining, or putting together, PF groups to learn Raid/Trial fights I do, to some extent, understand where this attitude comes from. Don't get me wrong, Asking for max lvl gear and 100% knowledge is still absurd, but asking for experience in early phases makes sense in the longer fights.

Working with PuG groups in PF can be hell, especially in fights like T9 because of the sheer number of phases. It's hard to practice the final phase when you constantly get groups who are fresh in Phase 1 and wipe. You can explain it all you like, but in a fight like that there really is no substitute for experience. After a few dozen wipes, you start to understand why people ask for experience in the PF. There's only so long you are willing to replay the exact same phase over and over before you get tired and start posting requirements in your PF such as: "Must be able get to heavensfall." It's for stuff like this that SE's long awaited "Practice Mode" would have been wonderful.