Why is it so common to join extremes without watching a guide first?

[SassyAssassin]

I rarely watch guides. Often they contain to much information. The thing is they don't tend to give you is much sense of timing. So you watch a guide you can be watching out for so many things at once. That mechanic your watching out might be a full minute after the last one or it might be 4 or 5 seconds. And if you're spending a full minute looking around trying to see the tells for a mechanic that is a long time off then it becomes a question of how much stuff don't you see.?

The only real time I tend to use guides is if something doesn't make sense to me.. typically this is usually some form of cor mechanic where I can't see... like recently p5 i think it is apparently has green and yellow puddles on the floor. I can't see the difference I just see lots of puddles all the same colour.

Or the last boss of alzaddals legacy with the curtains..

So I'll watch a video pause it and usually spot alternative ways to identify. Such as shapes. Makes more sense.

As for duty finder the problem. Is less about guides and more about the disparity between normal and extreme.. the normal modes really should teach you the basics of the extreme bit often they don't they're just roflstomps

Thank you for your explanation, I can see your point of view, at the beginning I had a similar problem, Id watch a guide and wind up even more confused than before.

There are many youtube guides I couldnt understand because they are often filled with unnecessary jokes and dragged for way too long so I tend to stir clear of those content creators, thankfully there are a few smaller creators on youtube that can explain the fights in less than five minutes so that you can get a basic knowledge of how it will play out, not necessarily how long the mechanic will last but at least know that it exists and then I can practice it in the duty itself.

In df I often encountered healers that stack both of their stack markers together, or tanks not running away with their proximity markers which are common mechanics in normal modes as well.

Most people have a basic understanding of that but there are many who don’t and I think people should at least look up regular mechanics before joining an extreme fight if they didn’t catch on to them from regular duties.