When I go into a new dungeon, trial, or raid, sometimes it gets hectic with multiple things to deal with. This is the first game I've actually played at level dungeons in groups frequently.

I know there are different approaches to learning these things. I've gotten frustrated with the "just play the content and learn while there" approach. That works a lot of the time but sometimes it gets so confusing that I don't feel I'm doing a good job and I take it to heart when I frustrate other people who are playing. I want to improve.

So I've been searching for guides and found a couple that were useful. One is a google slides guide that I made a copy of to add to (What is this thing? Markers and You A Comprehensive Guide: Written and Compiled by Aletin Ves’ser) and a reddit post (Guide to Universal Markers in Final Fantasy XIV).

However, a lot of information I find tells you what the marker is but not what to do. I've also read that markers are somewhat inconsistent. Meaning I can't count on it being the same mechanic.

With that said, I don't know what terms to use as keywords to get more in depth information. If you know some, help me out with letting me know!

I think I've got a decent grasp of the orange AoE's and the arrows for stacking or running away. I know you are to face away from red eyes. I know that there are mechanics specific to each of the dungeons, trial, etc. I know the basic stationary meteor/tower that should have people standing in each one.

What I don't have a good understanding of are the personal markers. Does anyone know a good guide for those? In general I try and take those to the edge and drop them there but are there some I shouldn't do that with? How do you deal with multiple people having green and then red personal markers on them? There are so many shapes and colors. I really need to find an explanation of each.

Tethers: Is there a good guide on those somewhere? Some you stay apart with, some you pull something somewhere, some you break, but how do you know which you do what with? What do you do with purple ones? How do you know which ones you give to someone else? I realize that I can read up on each dungeon/trial/raid to see what to do in that specific one but with duty roulette you don't know where you are going to end up. It would be helpful to know some things in general.

I'd also like to find a guide for the different types of "puddles" or circles. I've seen a list of the types and know what fire and ice looks like but would like to see the others.

I also found pictures of friendly AoEs (some of which I had been avoiding ). I'm looking at you salted earth, slipstream, doton, and earthen fury!

TLDR: Can you direct me to good guides to improve my handling of the things that kill you in dungeons/trials/raids? Thanks for any help you provide!