Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[KaivaC]

I think there's one of the major flaws with FFlogs. It checks how you perform compared to everyone else, but not how you perform in cosideration of the performance that i required to clear a fight. Granted that would be hard to calculate. Taking Boss HP, then statistics about how many % each class should deliver to total dps in average, and then see if you meet that average value that i required from your class for that fight.

In germany we have saying: "A good horse only jumps as high as it needs to". If 5k is mora than enough to clear a fight, who gives a shit that there's someone out there that can pull 6k (other than our ego). You could also argue what "better" means. In the end you both cleared, but they put more effort in without any real gains (aside from ego again).

Nature of the thing is, as long as people are compared to each other, there will always be people with grey parses, because there can only be 1 winner. However giving colours that compare your dps with required DPS for a fight would paint a different picture.

But that's just hypothetical rambling ^^

This really all just boils down to me just wanting to be good. I haven't achieved that yet. To me personally, 5k is not good enough for me, as a raider, to say I've done any improvement in the last few months. Of course I compare myself to everyone else in my job and even other jobs, because I need to know how much further behind than others I am. It's not so much as ego for me as it is just being able to say, hey, I'm a good raider. Haven't hit the level yet.