Is this truly wrong?

[SaitoHikari]

Honestly I usually hate these sorts of replies that copy sentence-by-sentence but I think this might be the most appropriate way to highlight the rampant disrespect in this post. For real though dude, grats on those purples. If I knew all it took to be a god of like 5 classes was callous disregard for the feelings of others I would have been clearing Ultimate months ago.

Yup. Sometimes it's best to just keep quiet and stay at the sidelines. Otherwise you get other raiders coming in to look over the logs to see if someone is actually justified in being a dunce.

I looked over their logs myself, and as it turns out, they're actually quite the example of what others in this thread say when you shouldn't care about percentiles this late into the raid tier unless you're fully best in slotted yourself and actually have a static, because otherwise there's no real way to compete with those that are BiS + doing 'parse runs' to pad their numbers. And I say this as someone who actually has two 100 historical percentile parses in the past, and scored 98 on Doom Train week 2, as a Bard in pug parties.

This guy happens to be in a static that somehow has a Dragoon but no consistent BRD/MCH. The usual raid team will have the Dragoon use their tether for the BRD/MCH for their opener, and then cycle to other party members depending on burst alignment/overall DPS.

However, the logs reveal that probably due to said lack of consistent DRG/MCH, the DRG in his static is exclusively catering to him with the tether in every single run I bothered to check - one advantage the vast majority of Ninjas won't have in normal clear runs. Even in the few recorded runs with other party members scoring higher overall numbers, the DRG is still exclusively throwing the tether on him.

(And now everyone's going to look over my logs, which aren't the best, but I'm just doing whatever I can with whoever I go with.)

Still though, the guy still has a point, general jerkwad reply notwithstanding. Kaiva, I get the impression that you attached some kind of persona to your forum presence, and it's bled onto what you think your performance should be, which spiraled into what's happening in this thread now. Self-reflection is good, but don't expect to get good overnight, especially with a job with as many buttons to press as Summoner does. A lot of the top tier Bards and Summoners have been playing and raiding as those jobs since Heavensward, if not even earlier than that. Right now, you are probably fighting muscle memory/trying to adhere to a comfort zone. It may take months, but you will know when you've made progress when things start melting around you and everything feels as if you've done it all out of pure instinct.

You can't improve if you give up, though.