"Don't Explain; Learn by Doing"

[Estellios]

I only really hate explanations when they are crazy walls of text that aren't necessary. Most fights in this game have very few mechanics that aren't obvious, especially now that the devs are thankfully standardizing the AOE indicators so that specific ones always mean the same thing. Typically I only try to explain stuff with obtuse status effects or the random AOE that you need to get hit by instead of avoid, since those are the exception instead of the norm.

So for example, tell me "don't face the boss during move X" or "don't move or do any actions while you have dice over your head" since stuff like that will have people die and give them absolutely no indication why. Don't make people sit there while you tell us to avoid AOEs on the ground.

My FC and I did Final Steps of Faith this weekend, we were 7/8 and all blind to the fight and we got an 8th who vomited a several paragraph macro immediately upon loading in. You can't really expect people to memorize all that stuff in a timely fashion and it turns out the only bullet points that were necessary were "Attack the middle add first since it has random hate" and "Stay gathered for Akh Morn until it's finished" (which coincidentally wasn't even in their explanation), everything else was pretty easy to figure out. No wipes either.