Average Player Skill Level

[Fandele]

Yes and nope.

I would say though on this note, that a lot of the contributing factor is just simply a lot of the older content after many of the reworks is just not really preparing people as well as it should. e.g., you can go through WoD largely not knowing a damn thing and not have a single wipe or an individual death. e.g., a few people in the party can quite as easily prevent wipe-able and killable mechanics.

As a new-ish player (started Nov. 2021), I absolutely feel like this is the case. I finished the MSQ without knowing anything about mechanics besides the pointers over my head or the orange circles on the ground. It never crossed my mind that anything would be happening outside of the boss arena (meteors), or that boss gestures, etc. were things to look for. I just died a lot, inexplicably, and got carried through the content. It was only when I started trying to run content with the Trust and I literally wouldn't finish the dungeon without knowing these things, that I started to learn about them. The day I finished the Fell Court with the Trust, and 4 minutes left on the clock, was kind of a revelation for me about how a lot of mechanics actually work.

I was going into every dungeon, trial, and raid blind ,as they say, and completing them nearly as blind as when I went in.