Why Does It Feel Like Poor Play Is Acceptable (I'm Venting.)

[spagthetapdancer]

Regarding your comments about personal performance concerns, I find that that stems from a flaw in the design of this game itself. There's no internal resources that show your own performance, nor anything internally to assist players with optimizing their jobs "to the next level"; all of that has to be gathered usually from external resources, and I feel like there's a problem with that.
It's simple enough to read tooltips and follow your flashing boxes for combos, but there's nothing in-game that tells you "Prioritize Shifu over Jinpu" or "Under these conditions, Shinten is more potent than Midare". There's nothing telling you "Here is an optimal opener for a high burst". It's all found out by players, and they use a bunch of math and external resources to do it. Honestly, there should be more in-game assistance when it comes to a person's desire to optimize their role/job.

I thought i responded to this post, but either way: would you know a channel to start with that's really detailed and has a wide range of guides for classes? it's always good to fish for extra hints.

Almost like some kind of... In-game parser!

*hides from angry antiparser people*

as long as I get some degree of privacy about where data on me is stored, then I'd be cool with that.

[HyoMinPark]

I thought i responded to this post, but either way: would you know a channel to start with that's really detailed and has a wide range of guides for classes? it's always good to fish for extra hints.

I would definitely recommend joining The Balance Discord (LINK if you're interested; don't think it's against any rules to link it here, but if so, I apologize). Very helpful and renown Discord that is full of veterans and theorycrafters willing to help people with job optimization. They have a forum as well, I believe. I have never posted there, though. Just the Discord.

[spagthetapdancer]

I would definitely recommend joining The Balance Discord (LINK if you're interested; don't think it's against any rules to link it here, but if so, I apologize). Very helpful and renown Discord that is full of veterans and theorycrafters willing to help people with job optimization. They have a forum as well, I believe. I have never posted there, though. Just the Discord.

thanks for pointing me there. I'll be in under my character name.