Quote Originally Posted by SlickPaws View Post
Even at that, the game could make one hell of a better effort of incentivisng players to learn and improve for themselves by updating outdated features like Hall of the Novice. A revamped HotN with individual job tutorials teaching about unique job mechanics such as teaching new healers what an Esuna is or when to use Rescue, teaching tanks how to properly manage their CDs and not overlap, teaching DPS how their rotations work along with how their gauge interacts with it...
I find the constant 'need to teach' comments a bit puzzling, given that there are no other MMORPGs that I've played that actually teach more than the basics that are currently taught in Hall of the Novice. Most don't even go that far. At best, one gets an introduction to the class 'system', not the class itself.

New players are actually taught the things mentioned above by mentors. I've encountered many such mentors over the years, from the Shaman in WoW who explained to two novice hunters how to use their CC abilities to best advantage to the actual mentors in this game who have an entire channel devoted to explaining things to novices, as well as a chance on a daily basis to explain things in actual instances to those same novices, to that dedicated portion of the population who create videos and web articles about those same things.

One cannot rely on the forums to do such things, however, because here there is only (a) complaint about those people who haven't learned mechanics or play style and, oddly enough, (b) the rare forum posting on how to play a class ... for which I've only encountered useful information on the one dealing with Dragoons.

'How to play [your class]' videos go straight to end game, which is a bit weird, considering that current end game is now 4 expansions away from ARR. The unfortunate problem with ARR+4 expansions is that there are also plenty of videos out there that are obsolete after 6-8 years of gameplay.

If anyone who reads this thinks that "training" should be mandatory, please help by putting together a video about the things you think that training should include. Or, write an article for a web site such as Icy Veins. Here's an example from that site for Bard: https://www.icy-veins.com/ffxiv/how-to-improve-as-bard