Quote Originally Posted by Baingoleth View Post
Does FFXIV have an issue where people look on the outside like they can do an instance fine but in reality are just able to hide their ineptitude?
Yes. Of course the obvious cases are easy to notice (certain buffs / debuffs / DoTs never being up etc.), but if a person is geared alright and knows the basics of their rotation (can beat the SSS dummy for the fight, for example), they can still fail at maintaining decent DPS in a fight while doing mechanics correctly and not dying. The issues may come from example them failing to keep DPSing while handling mechanics (only for small moments at a time but they add up), failing to adjust one's rotation to a specific fight, failing to take advantage from other players' buffs, even things like failing to queue your abilities (I've had one of these in my raid group once: on the outside everything was right but their parses sucked)... These are the type of people who often don't even know they're doing really badly (because they are after all well geared and know what they're doing, at least in theory).