Does the average XIV player know how to play their jobs?

[Absimiliard]

Simple answer:
No, no they do not. The game really needs to double down on forcing them to learn before they come and subject the rest of us to their existence.

[SieyaM]

I would say most of us play alright, well enough that my expert and 90 roulettes don't take more than 15 minutes per. Are we all playing at the bleeding edge with competitive numbers against those that are running spreadsheets to max out sub stats and get maybe one extra oGCD in per run, no. The thing is, especially with FFlogs, is if everyone was playing optimally and every player was miraculously within 100 DPS of each other, someone would still be in the bottom and still be a grey parse.

[Niroken]

We are almost at Level 100 and the content is roughly as difficult as Level 50. One hundred levels of tutorial. People don't get better unless they have a reason to.

[Renalt]

My paint skills are elementary. However the average is green/blue IMO

[Asari5]

My paint skills are elementary. However the average is green/blue IMO

is that really your experience? it certainly isnt mine. grey and especially red would be much bigger

in random content, not tslking about extremes and savages

[Renalt]

is that really your experience? it certainly isnt mine. grey and especially red would be much bigger

in random content, not tslking about extremes and savages

Well. Yeah. That is my experience. Yeah I come across some brain dead people but those are few and far in between. MOST my dungeon/trial/Alliance raids ( even outside the CT set ) usually go on with NO issues.

[SturmChurro]

My paint skills are elementary. However the average is green/blue IMO

I'd say red is the average at best. Anything past red is above average, in my experience.

Well. Yeah. That is my experience. Yeah I come across some brain dead people but those are few and far in between. MOST my dungeon/trial/Alliance raids ( even outside the CT set ) usually go on with NO issues.

That's because the content is dumbed down mostly. You can get by with a lot in most content nowadays, and it can effectively be brute forced, or by some carrying the others.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

My paint skills are elementary. However the average is green/blue IMO

A picture worth thousand words.

On my end, the reds & greens are the largest. Reds should be about the same size as greens too.

[Renalt]

Yikes. I'm sorry people have had a lot of issues with others. I guess I've been lucky cause there has been only ONE instance where people just bailed from continued failure and that was the Bird and Portal trial. I stayed with the group cause I knew there was a 1st timer and I wanted them to be able to clear but unfortunately I was a DPS and not a healer and the healers kept biting it.

Most of the time if we wipe...it's just the once. Rarely twice.

As SturmChrro said...it IS stupidly easy. I've been lucky to be grouped with randoms that could handle it without a single word being exchanged.

[Gariored]

No they do not, most play FFXIV for the social aspect and treat this like second life.

I would love for the devs to "enforce" better playstyles but only way I can see that happening is making normal content harder which doesn't work and just promotes leeching (Which we already have now) or players just outright dropping certain content.