Quote Originally Posted by Souljacker View Post
This is not entirely accurate. The party leader is still expected to direct the team, so you *do* need leadership skills and a general knowledge of the fight, especially three weeks to a month out from the latest primal. There's an expectation that you've "watched a youtube video" and can lead the team.
Except that this is only true if you do not specify otherwise in the PF description.

There have been times where myself or friends have been behind on content and wanted to set up a learning party in the party finder, so we would specifically describe the party as a "wiping party" and make sure to get the point across that we were going in to get our feet wet and had very little to no knowledge of the fight.

More often than not the party either filled with like minded individuals who wanted to test the waters and get some experience or others who have cleared before but wanted practice on a new job or role (like tanking / healing), occasionally we would even have players join who simply wanted to help others learn the fight because they had free time on their hands.

There were the few times that there were players who joined the party without fully understanding the intent and would get impatient and leave but those cases were few and far between.

The key is that you have to be up front about exactly what you're trying to do and in some cases wait for other like-minded individuals to fill the spots, but for many players it does start by stepping out of your comfort zone and actually putting up a party.

The reason the JP servers have more learning parties in the PF is because they are being made by both players who want to teach and players who want to learn.

This idea of sitting around and waiting for the perfect learning party to show up and then complaining that there aren't any players making them however will accomplish far less than tossing one up and taking a few lumps here and there and more importantly not giving up after a few bad experiences.