Quote Originally Posted by Judge_Xero View Post
This is exactly my feeling on the subject.

For the argument of "The Game does not teach you how to play"
- As you level up you gain small parts of a skillset in a linear order of how they are
As I gave an example on the whm I had in aurum vale I think some people tend to get a lil confused, and just the comprehension isnt always gona click like it does for some. For instance that whm probably thought well the tool tips say that cure two heals for more than cure 1 so I'm going to use that one instead, its just like a driving test just because you read what the manual says doesnt mean that you are now officially an expert driver or that your going to past the test. The fact that people think tool tips is the number one answer alone just doesnt make sense to me, its helpful but it doesnt take someone from a 2 week skill level to all of a sudden they are a master of the job.

I remember when I first started blm I made my own mistake, with astral fire , I thought sense it dealt more damage that I was suppose to trade it out for fire 1. It wasnt until someone explained to me that it was better to have it up and then go back to using your basic fire 1 that I fixed my mistake. And also learning an ability and working with mechanics are two totally separate things, the reason why dungeons are so much easier is because adds dont have mechanics. Its the mechanics from what I have seen that give people the most trouble and all hall of novice pretty much does is tell you how to avoid the big orange circle so I dont understand how something that is meant for a novice to do can be compared to the harder content. On Ifrit extreme does the hall of novice teach u how to dodge a mechanic that takes up the whole entire circle aside from two tiny little patches of space, or the same with titan his huge aoe that covers up the whole entire platform aside from 4 tiny little cut out plots of land. Are dealing with a charmed type of ability like in ramuh extreme the only way to learn this type of stuff is to actually doing it , and if people arent doing it then more than likely most people will never learn it. With how the game is set up and how content grows old so fast then for those whom want to do any challenge content , if they skipped over all things before it to play catch up then chances are they arent gona be very good at it, not everyone some people will be great but others wont.

I notice when I look at guides now like sophia extreme, that they have fewer and fewer views, I think apart of this is because fewer and fewer people are doing the extremes as they come out probably due to the bad experiences of rude and frustrated players making them not even wana try any longer. Because tool tips, hall of novice and all of that dont really show you how to deal with mechanics in this game nor does a video , videos give a general idea, but just like with everything else to get good as people say takes practice there is no other replacement for this.