Practice,Rotations, and DPS

[KDSilver]

How have some of you who have completed savage, or even EX modes managed to do so? Is it just practice with the mechanics?

Is a static really necessary to move forward?

I do worry about being dead weight as I'm learning mechanics. I've watched videos of the newest EX trial and E5S, but I'm really hesitant to encumber any group I join with my broken rotation as I try to move around and not drop any GCDs.

I'm not a MMO player in the first place. So jumping in all that learning stuff was a long journey. I was really not good at all.
But I was patient and passionnate, so I made it a step by step.

Dungeons, dummies, a LOT of raid normal mode, and 24m-raid.

Dummies to ensure I understood the rotation correctly and could perform it flawlessly,
Dungeons because mechanics aren't really punishing and let you breath
Normal because that's a first step in content being harder. I won't lie, I did a LOT of these and it did helped me a lot.
24m-raid because of the "surprise" factor. It teaches you how to adapt because alliances are never the same.

Once I felt confident enough on my rotation and performing it with mechanic, I tried extreme. I was dead scared. I always was super scared for any content in the first place. But slowly, I got some confidence which led me to try savage.

I understand your feeling.
Having a static is not necessary. However, I won't lie, being accompagnied by friends helped me overpassing my fear.
What a static is good for is you know that at least, as Xatsh said, you won't have a disband every 2 wipes which is a time loss.
I think there must be some static that start end game for the first time around. Might try to check it out if you feel it's better for you.

And yes, practicing mechanic will naturally make your muscle memory do the work. Once you know a mechanic well, you know how to keep your uptime by doing it.
You just have to take the time to gradually do it and also just do it.
As always, time and practice.

It's not nice to say that for these people but... there are a lot of "dead weight" in this game and they sometime don't even care. So the fact that you care to be good is already a nice touch through your progression.