Required to read Guides?

[Connor]

The thing about most content is that, particularly the later ones, they use consistent icons / mechanics / telegraphs. So rather than having to read a guide about the content, it’s about learning to recognise these icons, what they telegraph and how to react. Like the big yellow arrow above your character that tells you to stack with the party. Or a tether between players usually meaning ‘run away from them to snap it’. As long as you get used to recognising the mechanics, you won’t generally need to worry about the guide, which I think is the idea behind having so many consistencies with the mechanics

Edit: as with any rule there are of course exceptions to this one, but still they do generally use consistent telephraphs for specific mechanics