Why Does It Feel Like Poor Play Is Acceptable (I'm Venting.)

[HyoMinPark]

I'm inclined to agree for the most part. I found I could contribute more to a group's objective(clear time usually) by doing simple tasks like holding threat/mitigation and double pulling than I probably can by trying to DPS. we're 6 months into SB and I'm still not sure what good dps numbers are. I recently capped SAM and while leveling I was staying over 2-2.4k on most bosses but I've no idea if I'm doing things badly, averagely, or solidly. when I was leveling WAR I could swap to STR accessories and do about that much but I've no frame of reference if that's any good.

Regarding your comments about personal performance concerns, I find that that stems from a flaw in the design of this game itself. There's no internal resources that show your own performance, nor anything internally to assist players with optimizing their jobs "to the next level"; all of that has to be gathered usually from external resources, and I feel like there's a problem with that.

It's simple enough to read tooltips and follow your flashing boxes for combos, but there's nothing in-game that tells you "Prioritize Shifu over Jinpu" or "Under these conditions, Shinten is more potent than Midare". There's nothing telling you "Here is an optimal opener for a high burst". It's all found out by players, and they use a bunch of math and external resources to do it. Honestly, there should be more in-game assistance when it comes to a person's desire to optimize their role/job.