I go through all the trouble of explaining fights and will continue to do so up through 50. I like to help people understand and as long as they're trying I don't mind wiping. Fortunately I also have a dedicated healer who is just as adamant about clearing content and explaining fights.

I even go through the trouble of explaining how to tank, to tanks who don't know how. However my most recent experience was not so great as the tank didn't know anything about enmity or how to generate it. They also didn't even try what I was telling them and continued to wipe the party time and again. I left. If that makes me an Elitist jerk then so be it.


Sometimes I think it's the fault of SE. Granted most people may read the text through the quests while leveling up and understand the fact that they are there to protect the party and mitigate damage as much as possible but the fights through the story line do not convey it very clearly as you rarely have to actually tank anything. Just stand back and let the npc's take all the damage while spamming ws'.