Quote Originally Posted by LaughingBanana View Post

Maybe as I accumulate more experience playing together in the FFXIV community my views will be changed... we'll see.
To be clear this is all conjecture on my part but I have heard from the moment I stepped foot in this game that the attitude surrounding personal responsibility is very different on the JP servers compared to the western ones. I believe that you may be getting a different experience than we are on NA.

Lots of things are different between the two, specifically clear rates for higher end fights. It's actually really interesting to look into. I believe when TEA was newer I saw a report at one point that indicated any single world on JP had more TEA clears than all of the Crystal data center.

In short - yeah, you're probably seeing better players, it wouldn't surprise me.