How do you like to experience group content the first time?

[SwordswornFox]

My reintroduction to the game has me pondering this question myself. If I hadn't rolled up a tank to tank all the content while my girlfriend gets to be nuke happy BLM, how would I choose to learn the group content?

Blind or read/video up?

Personally I'd prefer to go in blind the first time, maybe it's my old single player rpg mindset of first playthrough blind and then the second with a guide to make sure I don't miss anything, but I like experiencing that first dungeon/raid etc without preconceived notions.

Role?
I'd still tank it first, it is my preferred role in many MMO's especially in dungeon tier content and find it easier to get basics of a boss fight that way, then try it healing, and finally dps.

So how do you like to learn the group content?

[MPK]

Depends. If it's savage/ultimate we better not be going in blind

[Doozer]

I prefer to just throw myself in without any knowledge whatsoever. Learn by doing. Plus, trying to memorize 18 things I just read or saw in a video is more likely to trip me up more than anything. It's easier to learn everything as it comes.

And usually I go in as healer or DPS first, but I have on occasion had to tank something first because it was my highest ilevel at the time. I don't really have any other reason beyond preferring to only tank something once I'm familiar with it.

[linayar]

If it is something I can just queue for, I just go in directly with no prior knowledge. If it is something that I need to form a fixed party first, then I'll follow what the group wants. If they want to go directly, that's fine. If they want to read/watch a guide first, that's fine as well.

[Recon1o6]

Blind personally, I pick things up fast anyway and suck with guides usually so it works out until savage

[Kaurhz]

Always blind, I generally prefer exploration and problem solving, be it quick or slow.. But if it's ever in a place it matters then I will generally specify blind!

[Malmstrom]

I have never done group content that requires a pre-formed party because I have never had anyone to actively play with and do large group content with since I started right before HW dropped.

I don't use the PF because I cannot understand the people that make them with the instructions that sound Greek, and I immediately feel at a massive disadvantage and like a hindrance when people use other boss fights or mechanics as references to a fight.

So I like to experience it by not ever doing it since I never feel good enough or confident enough to do it in the first place.

What's a MMO? I play this game solo ._.

DON'T MIND ME, I'M HAVING A DOWN MOMENT.

[Seraphor]

Ideally, blind as a tank.
If I don't do it the first week or two, then maybe DPS but still would rather go blind.
When I don't get to it months after, as is usually the case with Savage level as I can't stand static drama, then I don't really have a choice but to watch a guide.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Depends. If it's savage/ultimate we better not be going in blind

How do you do savage/ultimate on release then?

I thought you were a hardcore raider.

Do you just wait for people to make guides before doing the content?

[MPK]

How do you do savage/ultimate on release then?

I thought you were a hardcore raider.

Do you just wait for people to make guides before doing the content?

I'm not an alarm clocker / world progger that's for sure. Timelines and stuff are usually public within hours of clears.

I like raiding, but I would never skip work for it.