Quote Originally Posted by Darnath View Post
It's exactly that.

Story time
Last (literally) FC I was in wanted to do Tsukuyomi EX near the end of 5.0 unsynched. "Sure, can't be that hard with 8 of us in full Ronkan gear!". I was in full MCH Ronkan gear, the easiest job in the game IMO (No procs, positionals, cast times or RNG {DNC took them} to worry about, just follow rotation with the 50 heat and 100 battery CD and hope ping doesn't mess you up). Maybe it's just my eyes or what have you, but over half the time I would die due to debuff on the player not being the same as the floor half and halfs and die because it started at 4 stacks instead of 1. If I managed to survive that my dumbuttery (gotta keep it clean for the forums!) the meteors phase afterwards was a guaranteed death for me. After 9 tries, I literally said on discord "I gotta go, I can't do this anymore" on the verge of crying because I was failing the so called "easy stuff" so badly I spent the rest of the night with my cats. The FC was very concerned about me and they were not an inch angry at me. I was upset at myself holding my team back.
Dying a lot (and I mean a LOT) is absolutely normal.
This game teaches mechanics by killing you. When you die, you see you've done something wrong. It's not holding people back. It's part of the process everyone goes though.
Not even the top players are going to not die to new stuff. You can infer some things but the game has plenty of newer mechanics ready to kill us all.
We all die, over and over again, until we don't.

I hope this helps you feel better, and may give you the courage to try again. Just remember, dying and wiping the group isn't a bad thing, it's just... a thing. It's the way the game works.
Best of luck fellow warrior of light!