"Don't Explain; Learn by Doing"

[Leigaon]

No harm in going over the fight before hand. There are some things that can help out by knowing what to look for..other times you're just screwed doesn't matter how many times you read it. For me personally, the text will tell me some things but there are other things I have to see for myself and word them in a way I understand it more..so I admit, I'll have the wall of text, read it and still screw up like a champ.

The hostility I face usually comes from the "GOOOOO" guy, or from the veteran and his friend who have already cleared this place a bunch and, because they don't personally see the value in explanation, think all attempts at describing mechanics are a huge waste of time.

These are the guys that are the most annoying on the opposite end of the situation here. What annoys me a bit is that I believe these people likely died a few times themselves. It wasn't annoying so much for them I'm sure at that time. Best to take a few minutes and let someone learn something that might help them. But hey, these snowflakes are important IRL!

Then again, some people can't be taught. We ran this last night and our team kept wiping, I mean bad at the sphere of death. People explained the mechanics but for some reason our white mage kept moving to the wrong side with meteors, not esuna bleeding. Tank kept dying, the dragoon was doing the same and standing in the line of sight of the beam in its square mode. One guy finally said to us "Just tell us, what is it you're having trouble with?" well besides the meteors, some people were saying how they were dying instantly from the cubes over their heads. It was explained...our healer left, we got a new one. Tank DC'ed, we came back and we were able to crawl by even with a few mistakes.