Quote Originally Posted by Vickii View Post
Because if you don’t know a tactic you get one hit killed. It’s not uncommon to see most of the raid die to something like a knockback.

You seem to be one of the ex WoW elitists, but you have to remember that this game was never really built around that style.
Then you die to it and know better next time. It's not so much knowing everything beforehand but rather paying attention during a fight and learning from it, wether it was you who died or someone else.
Nobody knows any tactics first week and you still clear the fight with a full party of first timers because normal raids are forgiving. It may take a wipe or two but that's not unreasonable for a normal raid where nobody never saw any of the mechanics happening.

You have (theoretically) unlimited resses from healers and may even be lucky and get a SMN or RdM who can help out aswell. Even stack mechanics don't require more than 3-4 people to be alive. And a lot of mechanics are getting reused countless times plus they get telegraphed. And the infamous "just follow someone who seems to know what they're doing" works almost everytime for current raid tier.
The only nasty trap mechanic was imo on e11 the fire burnished glory (?) right after you thought "oh, I got it, I need to stay close to the edge for this" after the lightning one and got knocked straight off instead. That one was an instant black screen on my first run because all 8 people were sent flying, laughed it off in chat and knew better next time.
The other e9-e12 mechanics gave you a stack, you took some damage but it's not "you fail, you die" in normal. And definitely not permanently like on ARR Titan either. As long as one person that can ress stays alive for long enough to ress someone else, you can muddle your way through.