"Don't Explain; Learn by Doing"

[RiisWolf]

I don't get how people expect newbies to ask when they almost NEVER do that. Much less trust them to know what to do at all.

Don't get me wrong I hate long text walls (along with overly short smartass ones that leaves out an important detail) as the players who overexplains wastes time with things the newbie doesn't need to know, but I absolutely hate blind runs with randoms and hardcore raiders in particular- the kind of hardcore raider whose never seen the likes of A2 or a horde boss; the kind who is useless in big pulls because they do NOT know how to fight with AoEs or my favorite a healer who honestly believes that healer DPS is part of the raids' design when they are in fact obviously not. Can't trust them to fill me in the blind run. I might even leave happy I'm not wasting my time with them. Last time, I was the only one who knew what to do, and they got mad at me for not telling them about the goo and using them to seal the cracks, even though they told me not to help or say anything. After that wipe I had enough and told them how to fight the bosses. And the person responsible for that mess was a hardcore raider.

There was one moron who couldn't wait for four short lines so he dashed off into the boss while I, usually the tank or healer (most of the time as the healer), was too far out of the zone (I know the place, and I will stop at the last encounter before the gates to explain what the newbie needs to know) after only saying two lines, and gets snappy with me for OVEREXPLAINING and staying out of the zones, ensuring he and anyone blindly following him in would fail. And normally we get rid of the moron, and if he happens to be a tank, then I replace him to do his job myself RIGHT, even if it cheats me out of healer/DPS gear and the roulette bonus.

Granted I do like Thordan normal better blind, even though you got more than enough time to figure it all out. No need to say anything, let's roll! I say.
You don't need to explain Final Steps of Faith for the exact same reason as Thordan normal, because by then you should know how to evade huge line AoEs like in stone vigil ,spot an obvious DPS check like foreshadowing in movies, remember what the stacking AoE marker looks like, and most importantly healer who HEAL and tanks who can stomp damage into the dirt. But the saddest thing, none of it happens. Gordias Savage did not teach anyone how to fight better or even properly, so now we're stuck with useless DPS healers who think it's all baby damage like before the Vitality update. Tanks constantly eating up too much damage and think that using CDs solely means they don't trust the healer can carry them or in some way will interfere with their DPS, and the worst thing of all, when people do the absolute worst things think they are safe when in fact they are only ensuring they will faill, like ending up too deep in a line AoE to even dodge it because they were hugging the edge or standing in bad puddles because they thought it was worth casting fire 4 one more time long before the fight got to phase 2. Clearly they need help

Just be patience. Keep it simple. Fill them in on if you want a blind run. Be nice. Be competent or IMPROVE from the bad. Or someone is going to be really mad and out to ruin the fun.