Well..i remembered the T-rexes in FFVIII so avoided that thing...and then my experience with elementals in FFXI taught me to avoid magic with those...so yes experience w/ other games helped me avoid noobishness....

Traps were completely new to me though....

I remember there being a line of explosion ones in those mines you go to in the flying city...kinda went like this...

BOOM!
$%@^!!
BOOM!
#$%@!!!
BOOM!
Dead... (YOu'd think common sense would tell me to turn around after the second one...but noooooooooo ><)

oh and you cant forget about how the part member will triger the trap as you carefully avoid it wiping out a party member or two