Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
I just like not wasting the time of the other 7 people, nor my own. What's it to anyone if I watch a guide or not? And if I don't want to play with people who are going in unprepared like that, I don't have to be in the same group as them.

This just reminds me of this one time I was in Seat of Sacrifice Normal. We wiped 3 times, people weren't getting the mechanics. I told them at least what the fire/ice mechanic did. All I said was "When he casts this, it does this, when he casts that, it does that". Nothing major. I was told to calm down (???) and that the group wanted to go into the fight and figure things out themselves.

...Alright then?

We wiped one more time despite this time knowing what Fire/Ice swords did, so I just quietly left the instance. That sort of playstyle already isn't for me, and if people refuse to prepare themselves with randoms or take advice, it's really not for me.

I really don't care if it's a crutch or not. It's a videogame, I have nothing to prove. I just want to have fun.

No, nobody expects you to not read a guide. The thing some people take exception to are being called "unprepared" for not wanting to read a guide. They aren't wasting your time, just make groups where everyone is guided. People like to play blind because a lot of the time a guide will remove most if not all of the challenge from a battle. I'm not a hardcore blind player, if I come to a total loss as to what to do I will check a guide; and there have been plenty of times where I've done that and a battle has gone from being hard to being a breeze because the challenge was to figure out what you're supposed to do... actually doing that thing is easy, which makes the battle easy.

OFC, if you want your content to be easy thats fine, but calling players who want to be challenged unprepared is so far off base its unreal.