Quote Originally Posted by Shistar View Post
A piece of advice from someone who used to play with ~250ms ping: Find a job that doesn't feel like it's playing against you (jobs with faster GCD or that require great reflexes are not recommended at high ping), and get intimate with its tool kit. People who tell you stuff about how unbeatable the meta is are the same people who will buckle under any other job too, if played well. I would recommend you start out with ranged jobs and see if anything works for you. Something that offers you good escape options if you get in trouble - such as PCT, DNC or WHM - should help you while you focus on gaining more experience.

As you play more, you will learn about the kind of stuff the enemy will try to bait you into (if you die to SAM's LB, know that it is unfortunately almost always your fault; you walked into their trap by attacking them when you shouldn't have). A great way to learn your job is queueing into CC. The smaller teams forces everyone to pull their weight if you want to win. They're also shorter, so it allows you to review what happened, change strats/jobs and queue again until you find something you can work with.

You could also look into playing more defensive/supportive roles. Nothing wrong in staying a little back and supporting your teammates in Frontline. A well-timed heal on the players pushing the line is always appreciated.
Idk, I don't want to play CC because my performance there actually matters to the team's success unlike Frontline where there are so many people any individual's contributions (or failures) are irrelevant in the grander design and it is the luck of alliance hivemind that drives the team's success. In the end, I do not enjoy PvP in MMORPGs at all in the slightest in any form, and I will just keep playing Frontline the way I have. I will switch to bard, I will spam-press tab to switch targets until I grab something in range, and then I will spam my hotbar until everything that can be on cooldown is on cooldown, and maybe I will do 1/3rd of their HP in damage if they don't pop barrier or walk out of range before I finish. And then a tank will materialize on top of me out of nowhere and then a big flash of light evaporates me and it's all over again.

You cannot convince me that Frontline is more skill than just praying for your team to have better collective objective targeting priority than the other teams. That's it, that's all the gamemode is to me, roll D3 to determine your ranking and then spend 20 minutes running around pressing the funny buttons that don't do anything to the enemies but sure do have cool visual effects.