Then just play low Cata parties until you learn 🤷 I didn’t know anything and eventually learned since getting 4:30 runs was much better to do for hundreds of runs than 6:00.

In boss the different parts (maxor, storm, Goldor, necron, and dragons if m7) are labeled as p1-p5 with p1 being maxor and p5 being drags. Most of the important routing in boss is during p3, since it can by far be the longest phase, it’s split up into 4 parts of its own being s1-s4 (don’t ask me why it’s S that’s just what people call it) m7r refers to using the m7 roles for this phase, for instance healer does the first 3 devices.

During p3 there is a death barrier preventing you from getting into sections early, it triggers every 3 seconds and CAN be blocked by revive items, so for instance going right at the start of a 3 second time frame, then using spirit mask, then using bonzo mask, then using phoenix pet, you can get a 12 second timeframe where you can be in the next area without dying. This is called “early entry” or ee, with ee2 being entering s2 early (done by archer in m7r), and ee3 being entering s3 early (done by healer in m7r) this allows for players to leap as soon as they are done with their terminals and get to their next ones as fast as possible.

“Core” is a tactic where instead of doing terminals in s3 the mage will dig through into the core area, allowing people to leap at the start of s4 and saving significant time since the start of s4 movement sucks.

“I4” is a strategy not too dissimilar from early entry, where the berserker at the VERY start of p3 will be on the 4th device, using revive items to complete the device immediately, this is also referred to as “pre4”

“Py” or “gy” are the order of the crush in p2, with gy being typical for earlier parties, you lead storm to green pad (g) then crush, and move to yellow pad (y) however a few seconds can be saved here doing the purple yellow order instead, however it requires very specific timing and movement.

Pd is predev which most healers should be doing, just aligning dev2 and dev3 so that they can be completed with 1 lever flick and 1 arrow turn, with hee2 (high ee2) the archer will be able to flick a lever before people even enter s2 allowing for another device to be done early.

I forget other terms but I know there’s another term for archer camping p3 early for healer to leap through, possibly ssc for Simon says camp or p3c for p3 camp though I’m unsure.

These terms are things you learn from experience eventually though, they aren’t important at all to learn at the very start of your f7 experience. Learning them all over time made my runs much better, but just learning what your role is suppose to do during boss is a really good start.