We Need to Start Expecting Mid-Level Sprouts to Play Better

[Padudu]

Cape Westwind is now a solo instance, there is no completing it in 1 minute, or cheesing it with others anymore. The people losing are getting destroyed in the 3rd phase of it, which is basically a "burn the boss down" phase, because you are basically Holmgang'd and stuck in a burning field while he throws all his AoE attacks trying to kill you. It's pretty awesome.

Ahhh, ok. I haven't heard anything about the new solo instance, that's pretty cool. When I was a sprout I've definitely been in the "whoops" territory when it came to gear - when you ride the MSQ train you just kinda assume that the gear the quests throw at you will do the job even if you have some pieces out of date. There were definitely times when I've just let the quests gear me and I would have like.. accessories I've outleveled by 5-10 levels or something close to that, thought it was fine since hey, I'm living through the dungeons so I'm ok! Even though I was actually severely undergeared.

Although I know this game has an ok new player experience, it's definitely overwhelming and a lot of it is left unexplained - there's no way that the tank tutorials properly tell you how to tank, for example. Forget doing PLD rotations or anything like that based on the tooltips alone lol. I know we're talking about basic mechanics though, people are just incredibly weird, misunderstand things, or just plain-out don't know how to use it effectively. Of course there's people who are just genuinely not wanting to read/learn, but overall the game isn't great at explaining how to play. I'll also say this since it might be obligatory -- not a WoW player and the only thing slightly close to WoW I have ever gotten was RuneScape, but that still played VASTLY different.

I mean if people can’t understand that “10% damage mitigation and 550 potency regen that also restores 700 mana and doesn’t interrupt damage” is better than “cast for 2 seconds to restore 400 potency” then I don’t really know what to say anymore

Yeah you'd be surprised! Especially early on the freecure proc if you get a cure 1 spammer they'll follow it up with "it's fast, saves mp, efficient", or something along those lines.