How do I find out which job I don't suck at?

[Ninster]

EDIT2: If your friend reacts badly to your DPS; nonconstructive, pessimistic and just.. In bad blood, then you might reconsider your purpose here. Do you really want to be friends with someone who puts you down? Did he offer help at least? Why was he disappointed over DPS in a game? A FRIEND? Sometimes it is more important to know the mechanics and not wipe the entire group that have the top DPS. I mean, come on.. I might lose DPS when kicking bombs away in Midas but if I didn't do that, we'd wipe. /shrug just an example

Actually, not really. About as much help as I could get was "maybe you could find your own static?", which I'm not sure how to take. And as he elaborated on some of the other stuff he's done with me, my gear and their gear was to a point where "if I messed up" they could still carry me. That being said, this is the same friend that just last night talked me out of suicide (on an unrelated and very much real life issue, to be clear), so it's a confusing friendship at times, to say the least.

Anyway, part of this... "drama" is my fault for not really taking into account that Sephirot EX was, at the time "progression" content (is? I'm new to this so my apologies for not having my terms right), something I haven't done before. Almost every other EX primal and Coil turn I've downed was generally at a time where either gear was easily available to more than meet any dps checks or the undersized party option existed. This all brings more questions of how I was actually performing, and just how much contribution I made to my own clears.

Simply put, maybe I should say I've been "casual-zoned" by my friend. Y'know, like the friendzone. Or that I'm the 15th member of an 8-person static.

Anyway, to angle this another direction, how might I go about forming and/or finding my own static if that's what I have to do? And what all do I need to know before I delve even deeper into this?

[Andrea]

Actually, not really.

Did they mean it in a way to help you in future content? Ie suggest that finding a static may help you in the long run to not need his statics help?

While im not saying theres anything wrong in what either of you were doing maybe he was just trying to help with his static suggestion instead of pushing you away.

[RocheKat]

Actually, not really. About as much help as I could get was "maybe you could find your own static?", which I'm not sure how to take. And as he elaborated on some of the other stuff he's done with me, my gear and their gear was to a point where "if I messed up" they could still carry me. That being said, this is the same friend that just last night talked me out of suicide (on an unrelated and very much real life issue, to be clear), so it's a confusing friendship at times, to say the least.

Sounds like you have some real life issues you should worry about more than the job you are playing... but if you like Smn then practice and if you don't try playing something else. I would say SMN is the hardest of all DPS jobs and it doesn't help that it is really hard to know if you are doing poorly. In DF I can tell pretty quickly who the bad dps are unless its a SMN.