How optimally do you believe you play your job?

[jarlmcqueen]

How optimally do you believe you play your job? I play red mage and dancer these days, and I think I play about an 80 to 85 percent level on those. I make mistakes here and there.

Don't post hate!!

[HumanNinjaToo]

all roles, sub par at best, sometimes I even screw up at fishing

[Bryan_Weary1]

In general? I feel like I can hold my own. Am I at the super best I can be? Nah, but I have fun playing and am always trying to improve where I can.

For what it's worth, I've never been told that I'm bad. So, there's that at least.

all roles, sub par at best, sometimes I even screw up at fishing

You...I like you... XD

[AngelCheese77]

If people aren't hitting the floor constantly, I think I'm doing pretty well as a WHM. Other classes? Ehhhhhhhhhh stuff dies but I know my rotations aren't perfect. But so far I haven't had anyone call me out on it.

[Granyala]

According to parses I often get 95%+ in healing but only up to around 65% in DPS.
Our group operates in a way that I do the heavy lifting in terms of healing and allow my co-healer to dedicate more time to DPSing b/c I enjoy healing more and she fancies hitting stuff with shiny spells.

As far as objectively assessing how good I am? Hard to do. I'd say I am an average player. My performance is nothing special.

[Allooutrick]

Whm: well enough to solo heal a raid party
Blm: havent unlocked foul yet and I'm sure I'll screw it up
Pld: I sometimes lose hate on a creature while taking one pull to another.

So overall I say I play pretty well. My mistakes would likely cause problems in extreme raids, however.

[RyuDragnier]

On a scale from 1 to 5, where 5 is amazing and 1 is horrible, I'd say most classes I'd have a 4 on. A few I have 5, and NIN I have a 3, I really don't like that class.

[Mimilu]

I try to play as optimally as my rural internet lets me, looking up rotations and reading/watching guides. :B
It can get so bad, I'll have times where I'll use a weaponskill or ability and it will do the animation but not the effect and it will mess up timing as I spam the button, or I'll be casting a spell and it will just stop in the middle of the cast. :B

[Mahoukenshi]

Average at best. I try to move out of AoE and cycle my standard attacks and OCD if available, but if things get too hectic as in visual clutter covering the screen I lose easily overview and die to bad stuff. Watching guides (<3 WTQcapture's guides) helps a little, but in the heat of battle/hecticness and together with my innate nervousness (which has become better), I won't memorize dungeons or bosses ever. Sorry in advance to the unfortunate DF groups having to endure this . Never stepped as single foot in a dungeon (which would actually have been the second time) with one of my tank alts or WHM.

[Bonbori]

Terribly. As MCH, it's very easy to see the consequences of faulty decision-making. Right now my biggest issue is I constantly obsess over finishing the 1-2-3 combo over Hypercharging even though I know I have 15 seconds of freedom in between each step and there's nothing that can interrupt it. Related to that, I also tend to mess up heat management a lot. Sometimes I let Barrel Stabiliser sit off cd for ages because I forgot to dump heat beforehand. And then I panic and Hypercharge as soon as possible without paying attention to Drill/Air Anchor cooldowns, which cuts into their downtime which cuts into Reassemble alignment which... ugh. It's a mess. I hate myself every time I let that happen.
Also, I often catch myself mindlessly summoning Queen as soon as I have 100 battery, without taking into consideration phase transitions or party burst windows. There's nothing more deflating than seeing the Queen get up and have nothing to attack because I know that's 100% my fault for engaging my fingers before my brain.

In other words, I have a long way to go. But I think it's a big reason why I love the new Machinist <3 It takes a lot of practice to perfect all the little intricacies of the job, but with every aspect I get better at, I feel more accomplished.
I never liked playing selfish DPS before, I'd always been a support/healer person and for the most part I still am, but now I'm starting to see the appeal of this playstyle as well. Being able to see personal improvement directly reflected in numbers allows me to appreciate how much I'm learning.