Is this truly wrong?

[KaivaC]

I don't raid (even though I would like to, I just have nobody that would want to take me) so I just assume that I'm mediocre at best: dependable but at least I'm not making the healer's job more difficult by standing in poop.

From personal experience, learning parties are common enough in the pf that you could pick up the fight. I have yet to be in a static myself. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try. I'm on mobile, so I dunno what server you're on, not if you're in the aether Datacentre, I can go in with you when I decide to raid again

[Melixy]

I think it's really easy to say "You need to take a break lolz because video gaem is just a gaem!!!111" when someone is upset that they're trying to seek improvement and aren't finding any improvement. It's obviously not good to get super wound up over a game, but there's no harm in trying to get better at a game either. Just know that everyone starts somewhere, so don't beat yourself up too much over it.

Anyways, I decided to take a look at your logs, Kaiva, and I just wanted to point something out. A lot of these logs are fairly old, dating back to February/early March. So I'm not really sure how well you're doing currently but I'd like to echo what Shihen suggested. Have a SMN main look over your logs. I recently stumbled upon a good guide for SMN. I can see if I can dig it up somewhere in my 3000 billion Discord servers. It was by Aymeric's Waifu, who is a pretty dang good SMN. I recommend giving it a look over. I don't know many SMN things, unfortunately, but I do know that checking the following will prob help:

1. Gear. Keep in mind that percentile is based on you vs other people and other people might have more gear or, most importantly, a better weapon.

2. BiS is a thing. You might not be getting gear that has optimal substats for your jobs.

3. Melds, pots, food. They make a huge difference in terms of your numbers. Don't have gil for it? Find a friend that can make you pots and food. Materia is pretty easy to get with hunts nowadays.

4. "Padds". That's what my group's PLD calls any group of adds. Like I said, fflogs is you vs other people and if other people are padding on adds with AoE... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5. Keep in mind that FFlogs is kind of... well, just don't take it too seriously. It has great tools to look up people's performance, but seeing as we're past week 10 of the tier, it's gotten to the point where people are pulling silly parse runs and racking up really high numbers for "the lulz" or whatnot (there are people paying statics gil to give them parse runs...). If you're looking to have good numbers to get into a static, then keep in mind any good static worth joining won't just look at percentiles at face value. They will investigate what happened and why those numbers are like that.

Anyways, keep at it and don't get discouraged!

[Noshpan]

From personal experience, learning parties are common enough in the pf that you could pick up the fight. I have yet to be in a static myself. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try. I'm on mobile, so I dunno what server you're on, not if you're in the aether Datacentre, I can go in with you when I decide to raid again

I play on Primal data center & I must have great coincidental timing when I do check the PF I usually only see farm groups.