Request for general advice for being good at playing

[Kirsten_Rev]

How very true. I think I'm a little bit obsessive over not making any mistakes. Irl is a different matter for me, but for some reason here, I feel like I just need to be a good player. I'll get there one day, hopefully before next expansion.

Chiming in here, but to me, you already are. Being a 'good' player, in my book, is being willing to learn and generally not repeating the same mistake twice within an instance. That's it. If everyone meets those two criteria, any content (besides Savage or Ultimate) is doable. And from what I've seen, you're both willing to learn - indeed, you're seeking advice - and I haven't seen instances where you've described making the same mistake repeatedly.

As an aside, I sometimes suffer from insecurity about my play as well. Usually my boyfriend and I are in the same room while we play, and he'll get the brunt of my stress (he plays a healer). One thing that he told me that helped is that damage-dealing roles really can't screw a run up all that badly, at least not on their own (again, outside of EX Primals, Savage, Ultimate). A bad damage-dealer, for him, means having to watch his MP levels if he ends up spamming Raise - and that's about it. They aren't mission-critical in and of themselves. If he's paired with a terrible healer, though, or we get a bad tank? Then runs can go sideways fairly quickly. All this to say, if you're playing something like Ninja and people are picking on your performance, it's almost certainly because they're just looking for someone else to blame. I'd try not to worry about it too much, and just remember: the worst that happens if you're on a damage-dealer is you cost someone a chunk of MP for a Raise.

[KaivaC]

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Oh you'd be surprised at how bad I am. I just don't make excuses for it anymore

But I am trying to get better, yes. I'd been hoping to get logged so I'd know (and not encroach on that don't ask, don't tell policy), but so far nothing. so I genuinely don't know if I'm doing decent or not. Nobody's said anything to me or about my play since the patch...but that doesn't really mean anything, either.

[AmeliaVerves]

But I am trying to get better, yes. I'd been hoping to get logged so I'd know (and not encroach on that don't ask, don't tell policy), but so far nothing. so I genuinely don't know if I'm doing decent or not. Nobody's said anything to me or about my play since the patch...but that doesn't really mean anything, either.

The software you are referring to needed to be updated and the first stable and working release was yesterday.
Also the website you talked about needs an update as well, new fights need to be implemented, but that will take another week or two because they have to update the whole source code as far as I heard.


Anyways, I know I am on another data center and all, but I really sympathise with some statements you made so feel free to hit me up on discord to have a chat and maybe I can help you on a few things as well. ^^
Amelia#1234

[Vidu]

Oh you'd be surprised at how bad I am. I just don't make excuses for it anymore

But I am trying to get better, yes. I'd been hoping to get logged so I'd know (and not encroach on that don't ask, don't tell policy), but so far nothing. so I genuinely don't know if I'm doing decent or not. Nobody's said anything to me or about my play since the patch...but that doesn't really mean anything, either.

If you just want an idea on wether or not your general ninja-rotation is decent or not, I'd recommend you just try Stone, Sky, Sea for a fight that fits the ilvl of your ninja and see how close you get to beating it. It wont be an accurate representation of how well you'd be doing in the actual fight, because of the lack of mechanics obviously, but it will give you an idea in regards to your rotation (and as I mentioned: I think having that down in your sleep first is a good idea, because it frees you to pay attention to mechanics and to your fellow teammates, allowing you to make better use of your support-skills).

I might be out of line here, but... considering your experience with a certain website... are you really sure you wanna look yourself up there again? Maybe you can achieve knowledge of wether or not you're a decent ninja without putting you at risk of spiraling out of control again by giving SSS a go first?

[KaivaC]

The software you are referring to needed to be updated and the first stable and working release was yesterday.
Also the website you talked about needs an update as well, new fights need to be implemented, but that will take another week or two because they have to update the whole source code as far as I heard.


Anyways, I know I am on another data center and all, but I really sympathise with some statements you made so feel free to hit me up on discord to have a chat and maybe I can help you on a few things as well. ^^
Amelia#1234

Okay. I can certainly reach out to you when I'm able to get back on discord.

If you just want an idea on wether or not your general ninja-rotation is decent or not, I'd recommend you just try Stone, Sky, Sea for a fight that fits the ilvl of your ninja and see how close you get to beating it. It wont be an accurate representation of how well you'd be doing in the actual fight, because of the lack of mechanics obviously, but it will give you an idea in regards to your rotation (and as I mentioned: I think having that down in your sleep first is a good idea, because it frees you to pay attention to mechanics and to your fellow teammates, allowing you to make better use of your support-skills).

I might be out of line here, but... considering your experience with a certain website... are you really sure you wanna look yourself up there again? Maybe you can achieve knowledge of wether or not you're a decent ninja without putting you at risk of spiraling out of control again by giving SSS a go first?

I more or less just need a baseline of where I'm standing right now - as it is, my logs are completely empty, so honestly, I just don't know where I stand. I can clear all but V8S with no problems at the moment, though that is more of a gear issue that I'm trying to fix. I mostly want to be able to plug my log data into that analysis site that came out a little while ago, since it does give general feedback based on what was recorded. I'm only 361 right now, so raiding is completely out of the question for a good while.