how do you learn mechanics?

[CirenInus]

I've done most of the raids and most of the dungeons and I still know very little about what's happening ever.

Every raid or dungeon I do is the same thing over and over again. I die die die but everyone else knows what they're doing so the boss dies anyways and I learn next to nothing.

[MistakeNot]

So watch what "everyone else" is doing, so you too can do the same thing.

Pay attention to all the ground markers so you can figure where you should have been standing.

First time you do a new raid or dungeon you won't get all the mechanics. Some one can figure out on the fly, while others won't be understood until you have died a few times to them.

[Naoki34]

You can either go in a blind group or watch video guides.

[Hasrat]

Blind learning. Many mechanics are introduced slowly during most fights, one at a time, giving room for mistakes. Often, the first time a mechanic is used is basically meant to teach the hard way, low stakes if you fail. An early failure is something you should learn from quickly before fights start introducing complexities.

[Connor]

Personally I find running with trusts is the most efficient way to learn mechanics (for the stuff they’re available in). Since the trusts all do mechanics themselves, you can get a sense of what to do by watching and save yourself the embarrassment if anything goes wrong while you do. Plus it’s fun to see if any of them fail lol

[EdenArchangel]

If a mechanic is not clear to me the second or third time, I ask the group.

Anyhoo, I'm on Sargatanas as well if you have any specific questions

[MilkieTea]

keep doing it. im never gonna understand a mechanic just the first or second time. i need to keep at it

[Sinavie]

I die, die, die, and try again. Sorry rezers. But at least I'm giving y'all something to do... >.<

[Rongway]

Besides looking at the mechanics telegraphs and where people are going, also look at the arena floor. Many trials and raids have floor designs that are meant to help you know where safe spots are if you know how to read them.

For example, if the floor is made of tiles or bricks and there happens to be one particular tile in each of the cardinal directions that is a different color, there is an incredibly high probability that the devs expect you to handle a mechanic by having people stand on the conspicuous tiles. Maybe the distance between two tiles marks the safe distance for a knockback/drawin mechanic, or the minimum dance from the edge of the arena where you can stand without getting yote. Maybe four people are going to get hit by an AoE and the tiles mark the minimum safe distance that the four people can stand from each other without killing each other.

If there are grooves in the floor that look like large circles in a flower pattern, chances are at some point there will be circular AoEs emanating from the center of each circle, and the circles on the floor show you how big the AoEs will be so you can stand outside of them. There might be six circles and five of them will blow up so you need to stand in the section of the floor that is in the safe circle but outside the overlapping circles to the left and right.

If the floor has some intricate design that repeats after 120º, dividing the arena into thirds or sixths, there will probably be some mechanic that has safe spots every 120º or 60º. This type of floor sometimes hints at something like three line AoEs going across the arena, and the safe spots between the lines are marked by some part of the floor decoration.

Knowing that the arena floors are drawn this way and thinking about what different recurring floor geometries are trying to tell you might give you enough extra information to figure out how to handle a mechanic that killed you.

[Arazehl]

Doing a dungeon/raid once just to clear it, you don't learn much. Doing it multiple times you pretty much learn some things each time you do them, until it becomes routine.