I'm fairly new to FF14, I generally can only play one or two days a week (or less) because of work and other obligations so I'm progressing extremely slow and tend to sit afk in town a lot because I have a lot to get done irl. I curious about the dungeon hard modes and hard raid bosses like Odin and such. I've seen some posts whining about newbs not knowing all the mechanics to quickly clear stuff and that people should use "trust" groups and party finder to learn mechanics but I'm not seeing anything about practice runs, everything just says locked in party finder.

I've only gotten to the end of ARR as far as MSQ and the ending dungeons or raids or whatever you'd call I barely knew what was happening because people blow them up so fast. I try to watch some mechanics guides and videos before I queue up for new instances and raids so I'm not completely lost but seeing a video about mechanics and actually dealing with them are not always the same thing and having gotten tired of WoW's constant "you must have mythic gear to do this normal raid" bs I don't want to waste my time or other people's time by queuing up for things I'm not suppose to do.

So I guess my question is, can (or even, should) I do these hard dungeons and hard mode bosses now or should I just proceed with the MSQ and skip them?