Is this truly wrong?

[Squintina]

if you went from 9th percentile for 50th, that's pretty awesome.

You don't need to be like 70+ to be considered "good". Yes the elite players are there, but even being 25+ should still be a decent player.

Especially because percentiles don't necessarily account for differences in ilvl and materia. The elite players have a lot of the best gear now because they've exchanged savage books for upgrades. If you're still doing normals, there will be a big gap just from ilvl alone.

Additionally your team members make a difference too. Your logs are also affected by whether your teammates use things to boost raidwide dps. If you're pugging, you don't know what else you're getting and if other players aren't making effective use of their raidwide boosters, your dps in logs will suffer. If your team members die and you have to adjust in any way (maybe taking on a mech they were supposed to do, or having to spend a gcd/ogcd doing a rez or using a self-heal, anything that you have to deviate from), your logs will be affected.

To illustrate these changes, I'm going to link to my profile:
https://www.fflogs.com/character/id/...s=51&compare=1

See how my Feb 19th run my historical % is 25 (green), whereas if it was ranked today it'd be 15 (gray)? That's because as players have gotten stronger via ilvl, the numbers expected to rank become higher.

See how my April 8th and 10th runs are lower than March 27th? That's because of a change in party members, so I have to adjust more.

Also one fight doesn't illustrate other fight's percentiles. compare the above log (o5s) to my o7s wipes from just yesterday:
https://www.fflogs.com/reports/wB1M7...pe=damage-done
And I suddenly went from being a 50-70 percentile player to a 12th percentile player.

Everything affects your logs. Don't compare yourself to other people too much and don't compare cross-fights. Don't try to assume that your 50 in normal would lead to a far less ranking in Savage.

Compare yourself to your own numbers for the same fight. If you want to know how you'd do in Savage (and treat each fight separately), get logs for that fight.

And most importantly, don't be too harsh on yourself. As long as you are learning the mechs, reading up on rotation every once in a while, and keeping your gear as up to date as you can, then you're doing it right. If you're really worried, you could also go on youtube and look up the fight + your job name + POV.

example: o5s SMN POV

There's usually someone that will have the fight you're doing in the same job you're doing. Slow it down, study it (try to get their name and check their logs too), and if you think they're ok and you play similarly, then you're ok too.

When you do look at other player logs
don't get hung up on percentiles. You want to learn from other players, not feel inferior (or superior) to them.

Here are things that helped me in using fflogs to make myself a better player:
1 - Casts tab: active % and CPM
Active % = how much you're hitting your GCDs. Ideally you want to be 90+%, but heavy-mech fights might be 85%. If you're learning a fight, it might be 70%. If you're under 70 consistently, and other players in your job are not, that's an issue with not hitting buttons enough.

One example of that is when dodging. Casters sometimes forget to keep attacking while dodging. That's when that Instant Ruin really helps out.

CPM - casts per minute (make sure you compare to the SAME job)
That's how many skills you use. 2 players could have the same active % and drasticially different CPM depending on how many oGCDs are used.
Having a lot less CPM usually means a rotation problem when it comes to weaving in ogcds.

2 - Debuffs tab (change to "Enemies")
Find your dots, see what the uptime is. See other player's uptime. Ideally you want to be as close to 100% as possible, but mechs can influence that (for example o5 has a whole section of not being able to target the boss. Can't keep uptime on something that's not nearby, so the uptime is always lower in o5 than other fights)

3 - Casts tab again, click on your name
Compare how much you used your skills. If you see a drastically different number of used skills compared to someone else, that's usually a rotation issue.

4 - Replay
If you find a player whose stats you like, use the Replay feature and see what skills they used in real time!

For you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgjBnChIi4U
(that's o5S SMN, the player in the video is a top player)

https://www.fflogs.com/reports/4yxTt...=7&view=replay
Same player as the above video, for the same fight. Pick "Bronch Osaur" on the bottom right. Then click "Play" on the bottom left.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...y0TrCa0qg/edit
Summoner guide

Opener choice 1: http://ffxivrotations.com/1980 (sicfrit non-pet swap)
Opener choice 2: http://ffxivrotations.com/1dnq (bahamut)
Opener choice 3: http://ffxivrotations.com/197t (pet swap bahamut)
Bahamut non-opener rotation: http://ffxivrotations.com/197n