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

[Eien713]

Ok people dont seem to understand what I mean.

Why join and ask for the strat written in party chat when you can easily read the strat on google?

Offering guidance is one thing, rewriting the mechanics for you as soon as you join the party makes no sense when you can just go to google to read before that and save everybody some time.

Some mechanics are so lengthy to explain (Thordan?) that more often than not nobody gets to finish and they maybe would if you would have read beforehand. And I can understand you can’t remember everything, but you will remember at least SOMETHING that in the end will make the whole run smoother for everybody.

If you want to do a blind run then join and say that. Don’t join and ask for the full written guide when that is accessible literally everywhere online.

It makes NO difference.

If you learn by doing then congratulations, everyone learns that way, thats not even the point, but don’t join asking people to write down for you something you can find in ten seconds to begin with.

This pretty much sums up how I felt when I got extreme fights in Mentor Roulette. It's not that I didn't want to help or mentor (I was there to do just that, after all); it just made no sense whatsoever to ask for the strat and not make an effort to look for it yourself. This just reeks of laziness (or maybe ignorance, in which case the mentor has the right to tell the person the proper way these fights should be approached without being accused of not wanting to "do their job"). If we all go into the fight prepared, we spend the 60 minutes learning and trying to beat the fight instead of wasting time explaining. If you want to prog blind, I respect that and am willing to stick around for it if you really try your best to learn the mechanics. But before queuing, can you guarantee that everyone else in the random DF party you get also wants the same thing? I think not.

Sigh, all those people in the comments coming at you without even reading or understanding the point you were making shows they just want to have a swing at mentors whenever they see an opportunity (whether the opportunity is actually there or not) -.-