My Catharsis in FFXIV

[HyoMinPark]

When we finally beat the boss, they decided to have a meeting to discuss on how to deal with that boss before moving on to Alexander. Their strategy was to squeeze out as much damage as possible (I wanted to tell them that dying less would lead to more damage, but I decided to keep that to myself). When they got to me, they wanted me to use Shoulder Tackle on cooldown no matter what, I told them no because I wanted to stay on the boss and I haven't gotten down its rotation just yet for me to pull off that kind of min-maxing, 100 potency every 30 seconds would not be missed. So they kicked me from the static. Not because I performed poorly, but because I didn't want to completely maximize my damage with such desperate clawing to scrape up a minuscule damage increase. That was not going to change the result of the entire fight. That's what's I'm talking about when I spoke of criticism because I didn't squeeze out every bit of damage.

They kicked you because they wanted to optimize, and you weren’t willing to do that. Any static wanting to optimize is within their rights to kick a member who refuses to optimize.

When the goals of members of a static are different, there will always be contention. They wanted to squeeze out as much damage as possible; you wanted to play it safe. That didn’t line up with what they wanted. 100 potency adds up over time, by the way—it’s one thing to hold the ability for a few seconds for a well-timed dashback, but if you continuously hold it over the course of a fight to the point that you are losing multiple casts of it, that’s you throwing away damage for literally no reason. For example, 5 missed casts is 500 potency—already stronger than Tornado Kick, which was MNK’s most potent ability back in HW.

When it was that I talked with Japanese raiders about my scenarios like the one I talked about, they all pretty much had the same response: They don't care. As long as you're doing all that you can to win and not die, they're fine with whatever play-style that you want.

Not if you joined a hardcore group on JP. If they want to optimize and you do not, they will not take you. They will kick you. A group that doesn’t want to optimize won’t care, but there are a multitude of groups on JP that do want to optimize and min-max. Don’t join groups that want things different from what you want.

Huh? Magic-crystal-ball-website? What are you talking about? The only site on my forum profile page is to my YouTube channel (which I should change because I'm not uploading anything. I'll set it to my twitter for now), and my lodestone profile has that code that FFLogs wanted me to put on it, which was for those Alexander raid runs. It no longer matters, the Japanese players don't really use it. I think that they use something else to check performance, but's it's used more for a personal performance analysis rather than analyzing others.

If you think JP players don’t use a certain tool and a certain website, you are mistaken.