Things to think about before you call someone "Bad"

[Lastelli]

I'm calling bs on this. This thread makes it sound like 99% of the playerbase is terrible. I pug a lot of stuff and outside of savage content, 95% of my runs go just fine. I guess it comes down to what is considered "bad".

Indeed. To me, a player that is pulling half the dps his/her job is capable of or lower, given correct execution of mechanics, is a bad player. And believe it or not, in any suzaku farm party I joined in the last 2 days, there were 1-2 players like that. That the rest of the party was good enough to carry them doesn't change the fact that they were unskilled players.
And if you're telling me that you don't find bad players in pug based on the above definition...you either have no idea how to assess a player's skill, or you are one of those bad players. Unless NA players are significantly more competent than EU players.

Though to be fair, the situation is particularly bad right now. Maybe a lot of casual players came back for patch 4.4 and they thought they were good enough for ex trials? Not sure, but anyway the average skill level feels very low right now.