Maybe some of you guys and gals have experienced such.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Best practice for learning primal fights is to get in on the learning groups that happen on the first day of the patch. At that point everyone is on the same playing field so there's a lot less discrimination.

As soon as the first group clears it, you'll start to see farm groups that say "must have clear", "no tome bonus", etc.

I think this is why they separated primals from the main scenario because people were just speeding through the story to unlock primals as soon as possible to be in those first groups. Now you can just unlock the primal first and do the story later.

It's kind of a shame that the community is like that but it's pretty much standard these days that if you aren't there in the first day, it'll take you a lot longer to get a clear.