Quote Originally Posted by CirenInus View Post
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.
story of my life; I study the youtube videos and read the guide pages repeatedly until I'm sick and tired of them, yet whenever I get into a dungeon, I see next to none of the effects casting; then, I die. it's humiliating, and I feel terrible for the other party members who are suffering because of me.

one thing I've noticed and wonder about is the game's field of vision. in the videos, I can see the effects going off from a much longer distance than what I see in the playing field in game. for example, in The Final Day, I saw the colliding planets quite well watching the videos, but in the arena, they seemed to be outside of my field of vision. I run the game with the camera pulled all the way back. is there anything I can do to get more range on the camera? I think it might help me, especially while I'm learning.

and no, I can't swing my camera around, I have severe motion-sickness. doing that would just put me in bed with vertigo. I know of other games that extended the camera pull-back range to help alleviate that issue, but none of them are ffxiv, and I don't want to play them...