Yeah I definitely can get a feel for mechanics to an extent and I don’t mind blind progs with PUGs (just not my static cause of the lack of communication). We do mainly extremes, savages and ultimates so there’s some mechanics you only see in those and it’s just a struggle to place a guide to playing when it’s your first time and trying to figure out what our strategy is because nobody will tell me at the same time.

Think it’s just a combo of core group has all discussed it beforehand and don’t get they need to explain to the rest of us for whatever reason. Late callouts when we should already be positioning and I don’t even know why we’re positioning this way or what the strategy is so I can adjust if I can’t meet the callout doesn’t help. And idk they just might not be good at teaching. Not that I’m asking to be taught, I’ll do the research, just tell me what the strategy is…

I think some of the raids we do are new to some of them and old to a few of them and mostly new to the rest of us not in the core group.

Yeah that’s true, I do usually feel like I’m just a duty support NPC lol. Is a bit frustrating since if I knew our solutions I’d go down less and it’d be easier on the healers.

Some of it was DDOS but a lot of it was just server overload which sucked horrifically. DDoS was its own thing because I did have trouble logging in during those times.

ETA: also not to sound like a churl the update about a month in did fix a lot of the lag. Until then it was just really bad and I was routinely running into people in df roulette also suffering from it which just made things even harder. But I will say SE did work on it and put a fix out that resolved most of it within a month. I feel like part of the challenge may have just been I was on the “overflow” datacenter for NA and SE underestimated how much “overflow” we would be seeing. Cause about the majority of people I was paired with in df roulette during this time were travelers which isn’t the norm on Dynamis ime.

Can’t say how it was for Endwalker, but I did experience a lot more server lag on Dynamis than I did before the launch. Getting in wasn’t the problem so much as being in instances and just having minute long multiple lag spikes to the point I was often going from lag to lag. Had this even in duty support. My understanding is this was “better” because I could even log in at all, but it did absolutely suck trying to learn new mechanics where I was in MSQ and learn how to play around entire dungeons being slide shows of lag at the same time.

ETA: I got up to Amaurot about the day after pre-order drop happened and then worked up through Seat of Sacrifice over the heaviest weeks was absolutely miserable with the lag to figure out what was going on. I also do MiNE ex/savage and had a few I’d been progging I just had to bow out from because when we got to new phases I was having so much lag they weren’t showing for me and the majority of the time I’d be either killed by something I never got an update to see or last person standing because I was lagging so much I didn’t ping into the damage.

I also thought no one used facetime until I worked retail recently… The amount of people I saw come in on a facetime calls where they both just had their cameras pointed at the ceiling was bizarre and boggling.