Define a good player

[KaivaC]

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I had to have this pointed out to me recently, but my definition of myself as a good player is seemingly flawed, and I guess it’s something that I need to fix. Take this for an example: I made a mistake in a V7S run a while ago and while off-tanking as a PLD, the main tank somehow died. I voked Guardian, swapped to Shield Oath, and as my health was dipping under 39k and about to eat a tankbuster, I activated Hallowed Ground to survive. After we get through the Virus phase and we get to the Bibliotaph part, I grabbed the add, and was dead within seconds, even after popping Sentinel. In my mind, I caused the raid to wipe because I probably could’ve used a Clemency myself to buy the healer maybe another second. I didn’t have Hallowed Ground available either. Now, from what I’ve been told repeatedly, it’s not my fault on that one because healers should’ve been healing me. But to me – I could’ve thrown out a Clemency just to give healers a chance to heal me before the next auto-attack hit. To me, I’m the reason we did not complete the raid.

Here, I’ll throw in a second example, same fight, different group. I’m MT as WAR, and during the second tankbuster, I foolishly tossed up Awareness + Raw Intuition (for note, awareness negates crits, but RI only parries attacks from the front). So naturally, I died to the tankbuster. And the raid wiped. I didn’t do that again, but because, as a whole, the group could not clear this particular run, I personally attribute that to my own mess-up from the first pull, even with subsequent runs.

That’s just how I’ve come to define myself as a player. If that makes any sense or gives any insight to how I think.