Is progressive content or the community to blame for player skill gap?

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To answer your question, it is because of the game and the community that there is a massive skill gap. The game practically teaches you very little when it comes class/job and mechanics. There's also the massive learning curve when it comes to this game. Just doing the MSQ does not even come close to preparing you for ex primals, not to mention savage raids. It sorta prepares you for normal 8-man and 24-man raids. You literally can get away with spamming one or two skills for the msq and class/job story.

As for the community, the fault belong belong with the top players and the low skill players. You're right when many of the top tier players doesn't want to deal with or give the bottom tier players a chance, but let's face facts, many of those low skill players just plain out do not want to learn or just cannot think for themselves or just figure out the basics. Do you want to know how many times I see a DRG not using heavy thrust or chaos thrust combo or how many times I have tell a tank to use a stance? Or how many times I see someone fail the same mechanic over and over again. Most players would instantly get better if they read their jobs' freaking tooltips.

I agree with you where you said that the higher skill players should offer newer players help and show them the ropes, but you can't honestly believe everyone is going to be that nice. This is a game. A lot of people aren't going to waste their time on somebody that they never met before or probably will never see again. Besides it isn't like the more experience players do not help the community. There are countless of online guides for every single aspect of this game. The top tier players wrote/film them to help people figure their jobs and mechanics. Do you know how many hours it takes to write a good guide? It takes hours of experimenting, filming, editing, and researching. They can help more people by making guides than by teaching someone in game.

Honestly, this game is not hard to be good at as long as you think and have common sense.