Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

If it's any indication, EAC was bypassed quite literally the same day Elden Ring dropped. The same thing happens in every other game that uses it. Within the first week, if not the first day, people have already circumvented it in such a way as to be able to play online without any repercussions whatsoever. Denuvo anti-tamper doesn't fare much better. To make matters worse, both of these options are excessively invasive in function and intention. Likewise, both demonstrably impact performance while running. Both also have a tendency to continue running in the background even after the associated application has been closed.

There are ways SE could check for things on their end, but that would only work with things that interact with the server. I believe they already do this to some extent, but what they can detect appears to be quite limited. Client-side modifications and things that function by reading the game's data would be unaffected, meaning practically everything people employ now would go totally undetected and untouched anyway. Even something so minimally invasive and straightforward as this would require a considerable amount of reworking of systems on their part.

Were they to want to lock the client and files down to make it far harder for people to read and/or modify them, they'd have to rebuild the entire game from the ground up. ....And people would find a workaround almost immediately. I really don't see any way for it to be even remotely worth it for them to take this approach. It would almost definitely require diverting resources to the game that are better served elsewhere, and SE seems to be spread pretty thin as it is.

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Originally Posted by Saraide

Some people have ACT open and just bulk upload everything that they did for that day. It's not done against any specific person and most people thinking they get target will be wrong about that. In truth most people having ACT open dont actually care. At most they will vent to their friends on discord but afterwards they will simply forget they have ever interacted with you.

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Yeah, I kind of figured it was something like that. I was just making a mockery of the "threats" being made to show how ridiculous they sound, and I'm not even trying to be subtle about it. :p

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Originally Posted by FireMage

Imagine actually calling not pushing buttons natural. Also I don't play with mods, on PS5. Sucks to suck don't it, bad?



A clear and a carry are vastly different things. Are you actually trying to defend a ~70% uptime Sage, yikes. This type of oxygen thief doesn't want people to have ACT because it hides how garbage they are



Your parse is bad because you don't know how to play well, no other reason. Again, I utterly outperform you and guess what? No add-ons. Git gud, no johns



This post outright confirmed you're a clown better than anything I could've posted :D



Then by all means, find me a good player that is against mods that are completely fine. The point is bads oppose them because they bundle everything up with ACT, which exposes them for the oxygen thieves they are



In order to be cheating an unfair advantage MUST be present. If it's not it doesn't matter what anyone says, it's not cheating. SE being dogmatic doesn't mean people cheated. Not every rule is valid. Trying to argue "Well it's the law" is beyond stupid. At some point in history in most of the world it was legal to own people as property, we going to defend that next?

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Missing my point, what I am saying is in the eyes of SE zooming put past their allowed distance is cheating. Sure it is 100% dumb I agree with you. Issue is those who created and enforce the law have a certain view just because we as a community said it should not be or SE is overreacting all of which are true. We as players must understand that if we choose to broadcast or for some reason for usage of prohibited items to speak is caught and they choose to punish us it is 100% our fault and is 100% valid since we all agree to the ToS.

I your slave example is a weird comparison, not 100% well versed in US history but to my knowing you would not get introuble for not having slaves, and those that freed them did assume all the risknin doing so and probably understand what they were doing went against the established norms of the time. If you are willing to become a martyr to the chose awesome, just don't be shocked if those that enforce the rules tell you are wrong and thus will be punished.

That is my issue with all this they should have just said yeah we used tools to help us so what of it? The stance on such things is dumb we welcome our punishment, nevertheless we still got world first. Don't try to pass it off because others used we had to use.

To me this largely boils down to person not paying their toll bills. Some local reported them and now their car is being towed cause today those that enforce the rules felt like enforcing them. You can argue till you are blue in the face that the original agreement was a toll would only be required until we paid off the bridge thus we should not have to pay since the money put into the bridge has been paid off. They are technically 100% correct but problem is if those that enforce the rules say you are wrong you are wrong by most practicable standards, and thus should not be surprised or try to make excuses for your actions. You darn well knew you were doing wrong.

As a mod user, I understand we assume all the risk, if I get caught I know I could lose my account or get a strike that is life.

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Originally Posted by solimiano

Ok, so let's break this down, you can only use mods if your on pc master race, I'm a console peasent so I can't use them, even If I wanted to use the harmless mods you describe, or if I was colour blind, can't use mods on console unless it's implemented by square.
Second, all mods are banned, no excuses, no exceptions, look at the last statement from yoshida.
So in admitting you use any kind of mod, independent of circumstances you are breaking the rules and should be banned.
Remember you are paying for a service and agreed to the TOS, you have no rights.
Third get down from your high horse pc master race, stop using banned tools ( all of them are banned ) and start flooding the forums with your requests.
Learn Japanese and go to that part of the forum and make your request there to gain more momentum.
I honestly wish that everyone that uses mods was banned at the same time. If there was noone left to play besides console players , that would still be fine with me.

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sheesh;
Get off your console high horse & cry everyone a river

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Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa

What I can say is that everyone above 90% parse is cheating, and probably even everyone above 80%.

Good luck competing with people who cheat when you don't. Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that cheating is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend breaking ToS on the official forums openly.

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I know several 80 and 90% parsers that play on console, so your statement is kind of nonsense. God forbid some people are just actually good at the game and pay attention to mechanics and what their tooltips say for their rotations.

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Originally Posted by Mcg55ss

I mean it does because cheating there can have REAL LIFE consequences...in most countries it's just bsn from game

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Again, no.

Squenix is not law enforcement.

If they break the law, that's on them.
Even if they catch somebody else breaking the law, while they are breaking the law, that's still on them.

No. You don't get to "what if" on this.

Two questions.

1. Are you okay with square enix breaking the law to scan in Japan.
2. If they can't scan in japan, are you okay with everywhere else in the world not being able to use addons while JP players continue to use them.

That's really the crux of this.

Everything else, just set dressing and semantics.

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Yes, because an unfair advantage wasn't present. Unless that IS present it doesn't matter what Yoshida says. That's a fact, not an opinion. Do educate yourself of the difference

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So lets see can a unmodded player see the WHOLE platform without moving their camera...Did this mod allow you to see the full platform without having to move your camera...... you know that that is A CLEAR ADVANTAGE OOOOOOOMMMMMMMGGGGGG. LOL Why not educate yourself before talking you are just making yourself look like a fool.

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So lets see can a unmodded player see the WHOLE platform without moving their camera...Did this mod allow you to see the full platform without having to move your camera...... you know that that is A CLEAR ADVANTAGE OOOOOOOMMMMMMMGGGGGG. LOL Why not educate yourself before talking you are just making yourself look like a fool.

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I wish you would read. I never denied they had an advantage, I denied that it was an UNFAIR advantage. Because it's not one. Maybe you should be working on your reading comprehension before you post again

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Again, no.

Squenix is not law enforcement.

If they break the law, that's on them.
Even if they catch somebody else breaking the law, while they are breaking the law, that's still on them.

No. You don't get to "what if" on this.

Two questions.

1. Are you okay with square enix breaking the law to scan in Japan.
2. If they can't scan in japan, are you okay with everywhere else in the world not being able to use addons while JP players continue to use them.

That's really the crux of this.

Everything else, just set dressing and semantics.

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The crux of this is
#1 I don't play in Japan so idc what they do considering if they are caught modding it is a worse consequence than crimes like grand theft auto and armed robbery in America.
also
#2 Japan is very weird culturally vs America, i mean a guy was arrested for selling a modded save to a SINGLE PLAYER game that just gave you items earlier than normal in Japan. So i expect Mods to be few and far between compared to westerners as they see the need to use them as a crutch for weak (probably why the harrasses unnamed for the dishonor they brought to the point its been reported some have deleted their accounts)

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I wish you would read. I never denied they had an advantage, I denied that it was an UNFAIR advantage. Because it's not one. Maybe you should be working on your reading comprehension before you post again

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So you REALLY are in so much denial you think that being able to do/ see something that others clearly cannot is not a unfair advantage LOL my god you are a delusional one.

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So you REALLY are in so much denial you think that being able to do/ see something that others clearly cannot is not a unfair advantage LOL my god you are a delusional one.

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Imagine saying this, others CAN see it. That's why it's not unfair

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Originally Posted by FireMage

Imagine saying this, others CAN see it. That's why it's not unfair

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Imagine this they actually have to move their camera and only have limited view of the platform, Meanwhile you don;'t and have full view of everything....that's why its unfair, you use a 3rd part addon to create a clear advantage of something not in the base game....mindblowing right.

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Imagine this they actually have to move their camera and only have limited view of the platform, Meanwhile you don;'t and have full view of everything....that's why its unfair, you use a 3rd part addon to create a clear advantage of something not in the base game....mindblowing right.

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It's not unfair as it's information that everyone has access to. Imagine trying to comment on content you don't wven have access to given your state time. You warrant no further replies, you are dismissed

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It's not unfair as it's information that everyone has access to. Imagine trying to comment on content you don't wven have access to given your state time. You warrant no further replies, you are dismissed

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imagine having such a self inflated ego of yourself you think you have the ability to dismiss anyone LOL man you must be the most delusional person on the FFXIV forums.

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imagine having such a self inflated ego of yourself you think you have the ability to dismiss anyone LOL man you must be the most delusional person on the FFXIV forums.

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He's not. He just pretends they don't exist. :P

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imagine having such a self inflated ego of yourself you think you have the ability to dismiss anyone LOL man you must be the most delusional person on the FFXIV forums.

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Don't give him what he wants and you will find forum life much easier. Talking about him seems to work better for me. Talking to him is just frustrating.

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Don't give him what he wants and you will find forum life much easier. Talking about him seems to work better for me. Talking to him is just frustrating.

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eh its late and god im bored of lvling mining XD bring me back to old WoW forums days

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eh its late and god im bored of lvling mining XD bring me back to old WoW forums days

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You do you!

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You do you!

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wish i could but its getting late and i worked this morning so my bed is callings gn peepz

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Originally Posted by solimiano

If it means noone can use anything but the official game, yes, let it burn crash and die if that it's the future.
Anyway, I'm personally set time aside this weekend to report everyone admitting to use or supporting mods in this thread.
It does matter if it's cheating or not, it's against tos period.
The more of you get banned and go cry somewhere to someone the less people use mods, enjoy your bans.

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I use so many addons that the game take 10 minutes to even load.

I'll reply to you next week because I'm not banned, lololol.

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Originally Posted by Troxbark

I use so many addons that the game take 10 minutes to even load.

I'll reply to you next week because I'm not banned, lololol.

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IF JP PLAYERS CAN TRIPLE WEAVE, SO SHOULD WE

This topic has had a good amount of discussion, and valid takes and expressions. But it's stopped now, and is just vitriol being thrown back and forth.

Stop. Stop blaming your neighbor. Stop blaming the community. SE has built this problem up for themselves. Even ACT was just the community reaction to Gordias' dps checks.

SE will play damage control the best way they know how. They'll sweep it under the rug.

This thread is embarrassing to read. Anyone trying to do Ultimate content without a dps meter will never beat it, let alone clear the Savage tier required for it.

There is no feedback from the game thay tells you that you aren't meeting the necessary damage to clear the content.

So why do people who don't care about their damage would be interested in raiding in the first place?

Most of these "3rd party tools should be banned" posters are witch hunting and looking for attention.

Also saw some console players getting salty? PC is an open platform, consoles are not. They are closed environments that don't allow modding or unofficial tools because they don't know if it'll effect their system's performance/platform being sold to children.

Anticheat Software itself is a potential security hole. It is IMHO better, that SQEX does not use it. Even when some players use parsers.


Cheers

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Originally Posted by elioaiko

This thread is embarrassing to read. Anyone trying to do Ultimate content without a dps meter will never beat it, let alone clear the Savage tier required for it.

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...Not sure if serious.

Just looking up your proper rotation on the Balance or elsewhere and trying to be cognizant of mistakes regarding cooldown timings and uptime is more then sufficient to get you through savage. Even ultimates generally aren't that strict of a DPS check if the group knows when they should be pooling resources/dumping cooldowns.

I would agree that the game itself doesn't do enough to indicate to you whether or not you're playing a job "right", though, thus many players who didn't do their research get a rude awakening when they hit endgame and suddenly realize they need to change things up drastically...or not, and while Stone, Sky and Sea exists, the dummy tuning is rarely very accurate.

I would absolutely be against this, because Plugins are not only used for cheating.
Of course I would never use any, but I heared there is plugins i.E for housing designers, that allow for a way better experience than what the regular furnishing placement has to offer.

Any auto detection system would block those and many other non-cheating tools too.

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Originally Posted by elioaiko

This thread is embarrassing to read. Anyone trying to do Ultimate content without a dps meter will never beat it, let alone clear the Savage tier required for it.

There is no feedback from the game thay tells you that you aren't meeting the necessary damage to clear the content.

So why do people who don't care about their damage would be interested in raiding in the first place?

Most of these "3rd party tools should be banned" posters are witch hunting and looking for attention.

Also saw some console players getting salty? PC is an open platform, consoles are not. They are closed environments that don't allow modding or unofficial tools because they don't know if it'll effect their system's performance/platform being sold to children.

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uh? Sounds like cope. Here is how you know if you are failing because of dps: you cleanly handle all mechanics and understand fight, yet die to enrage timer. The enrage timer is literally the in game feedback that tells you you're not doing enough dps.

How far will people go to defend their use of performance enhancers?

Also, since you say it's impossible to clear savage content without damage meters, you are admitting to using them since you've cleared savage content countless times? Or are you some god gamer that does things you tell others are impossible?

Yeah... I cant really see them adding an entire anticheat program, maybe at the very least like exculsively requiring the main ffxiv launcher to run ffxiv through some back and forth encryption but im sure even that would get bypassed, lol

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...Not sure if serious.

Just looking up your proper rotation on the Balance or elsewhere and trying to be cognizant of mistakes regarding cooldown timings and uptime is more then sufficient to get you through savage. Even ultimates generally aren't that strict of a DPS check if the group knows when they should be pooling resources/dumping cooldowns.

I would agree that the game itself doesn't do enough to indicate to you whether or not you're playing a job "right", though, thus many players who didn't do their research get a rude awakening when they hit endgame and suddenly realize they need to change things up drastically...or not, and while Stone, Sky and Sea exists, the dummy tuning is rarely very accurate.

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Unfortunately all of those guides and proper rotations exist purely because of ACT. The balance discords and all of the website use ACT to theorycraft and test the rotations to create the proper openers and rotation. So without them these wouldn't exist and players would simply be left guessing which would likely reduce the over all damage your average player who doesn't theorycraft does.

I honestly think SE needs to admit that most of these plugins exist because their design philosophy has driven it. Tight DPS check margins means everyone needs to be working at their best levels, which you can't tell if you are based on game feedback. It's nice that they want to avoid the drama that most DPS meters create, but at the same time this has created a huge issue with people needing to mod to get the feedback the game doesn't give because while SSS was a great idea on paper, it just doesn't actually do what is needed of it.

So yeah, I'd be against it. I also have issues with anti-cheat software because of my experiences with ArcheAge and their rootkit which really messed up my PC and took forever to get off even after uninstalling the game. At best such things are pointless because people get around them and it only slows down legit players. At worse, well as some have pointed out there are a number of Anti-cheat programs out there that are notorious for slowing down PCs, severely large number of false flags, etc. Add that to the fact that many of these mods exist because SE can't be bothered to add the features to the game, can't seem to work the headgear for two races, and refuse to give players proper play feedback so they can ensure they are doing all they can to not hold their team back and yeah, putting an end to this would be a nightmare for them.

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Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa

uh? Sounds like cope. Here is how you know if you are failing because of dps: you cleanly handle all mechanics and understand fight, yet die to enrage timer. The enrage timer is literally the in game feedback that tells you you're not doing enough dps.

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This is fallacious in a game with 8 players. People who say this have either no experience in high end content or are being willfully blind to the facts. You could be playing perfectly but still die to enrage timers if one or more people on your team are severly underperforming. Similarly, you could be one of the worst player in the game and still get carried hard. So no, beating enrage timers doesn't tell anything at all about your own performance, just the performance of your team. But in a game where a large portion of endgame content is done through pugging, at all level of play, one team's performance means absolutely nothing. You can't always count on others. And I certainly hope you have better standards as a team player than "I'm doing just enough dps so the enrage requires perfect play from everyone else."

Dps meters aren't "performance enhancers", they're feedback. You don't always need it especially if you happen to know how to play your job already, but personally I wouldn't leave it to chance and feelings. Logs are cold, hard, facts which can't be disputed.
I don't care that some people raid without it (most of my static don't use ACT and they're good players), but whenever someone says they're great at the game without once looking at any kind of feedback I'm asking myself "how would they even know?".

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Right back at you. Where do you think does The Balance get their data from? Correct, from ACT.

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Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa

uh? Sounds like cope. Here is how you know if you are failing because of dps: you cleanly handle all mechanics and understand fight, yet die to enrage timer. The enrage timer is literally the in game feedback that tells you you're not doing enough dps.

How far will people go to defend their use of performance enhancers?

Also, since you say it's impossible to clear savage content without damage meters, you are admitting to using them since you've cleared savage content countless times? Or are you some god gamer that does things you tell others are impossible?

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And then comes the fun part: you're in a group of 8 people. Now how are you going to tell who needs to work on their dps and who is already doing fine?
Aggro list is absolute shit for it and you know it.

Balance rotations are calculated with ACT. Everyone who ever looked up a proper rotation and uses it that is either directly posted on Balance or copy-pasted from there into some guide does in fact rely on ACT because that is how they are calculated in the first place. They don't pull them out of their arses, they calculate them with the help of parsing tools that give them accurate numbers instead of wild guesses and feelycraft which so many people here seem so fond of.
"Oh, I *think* I've been doing great just now, gonna post that on Balance as the new go-to rotation!" - not how it works, mate.

And yes, I rely on ACT and at least indrectly profit from it and I have no shame admitting it.
Because while there's nothing to look up for SCH in terms of rotation (just... Broils), I learned everything about both the best core rotation, the different openers and all the non-standard lines for BLM from there and regularly used that knowledge in endgame content. I'll not pretend that I just read a few tooltips and then knew the ins and outs of that class while the people on The Balance spend many, many hours pouring over charts, rotations and logs, let alone that I improved while practicing without regularly plugging my results into xiva. I'm not that arrogant.

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And then comes the fun part: you're in a group of 8 people. Now how are you going to tell who needs to work on their dps and who is already doing fine?
Aggro list is absolute shit for it and you know it.

Balance rotations are calculated with ACT. Everyone who ever looked up a proper rotation and uses it that is either directly posted on Balance or copy-pasted from there into some guide does in fact rely on ACT because that is how they are calculated in the first place. They don't pull them out of their arses, they calculate them with the help of parsing tools that give them accurate numbers instead of wild guesses and feelycraft which so many people here seem so fond of.
"Oh, I *think* I've been doing great just now, gonna post that on Balance as the new go-to rotation!" - not how it works, mate.

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Uh EVERYONE needs work first doubtful everyone is in top 10% and as a outsider looking a fight RARELY comes from big DPS changes dps in this game is so straight forward ACT biggest contribution is probably mostly gemming and big cd usage. The way fights look designed (outside of ultimate) if you are failing generally is probably just people uncomfortable with damage windows between mechanics or failing mechanics and dieing which take time, practice and understanding to develop them. Now obv each person grows at different rates so you could clear and yea some might be carried but I feel as long as you can smile and find enjoyment with your group it will be ok in the end. You may not get to flex your epeen at the world in the end it seems like that is ok

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Originally Posted by elioaiko

This thread is embarrassing to read. Anyone trying to do Ultimate content without a dps meter will never beat it, let alone clear the Savage tier required for it.

There is no feedback from the game thay tells you that you aren't meeting the necessary damage to clear the content.

So why do people who don't care about their damage would be interested in raiding in the first place?

Most of these "3rd party tools should be banned" posters are witch hunting and looking for attention.

Also saw some console players getting salty? PC is an open platform, consoles are not. They are closed environments that don't allow modding or unofficial tools because they don't know if it'll effect their system's performance/platform being sold to children.

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Well according to the lead developer the internal test team did just this so...idk maybe the testers he hired are just the best gamers ever.

It's extremely likely, considering how tightly the dps checks are tuned for week 1 savage and how they know precisely the impact of minor potencies change in the overall job balance, that the dev team uses internal dps meter tools.

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This thread is embarrassing to read. Anyone trying to do Ultimate content without a dps meter will never beat it, let alone clear the Savage tier required for it.

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As a member of the “PCMR”, I fully agree.

Except, one small problem. We still need a final solution to console players who can’t use ACT. Square Enix would panic if we ended support for PS4/5 players because they care about money. I know WE don’t care about revenue, but the suits do. So we need to implement enough social pressure to ostracize console players into not even trying endgame content. Problem is, Square Enix is working against that. Yoshida is pressuring people to play 100% vanilla as proof of authenticity for their clears. The JP community already feels very, very strongly about add-ons and parsing because of the association with cheating. People are working against you and this’ll be difficult for you to accomplish. Furthermore, ACT doesn’t have a feature like DBM that alerts party members that it’s on. The most people can do is kick those without logs, but…virtually everyone has logs.

How exactly can we fix the problem?

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Uh EVERYONE needs work first doubtful everyone is in top 10% and as a outsider looking a fight RARELY comes from big DPS changes dps in this game is so straight forward ACT biggest contribution is probably mostly gemming and big cd usage. The way fights look designed (outside of ultimate) if you are failing generally is probably just people uncomfortable with damage windows between mechanics or failing mechanics and dieing which take time, practice and understanding to develop them. Now obv each person grows at different rates so you could clear and yea some might be carried but I feel as long as you can smile and find enjoyment with your group it will be ok in the end. You may not get to flex your epeen at the world in the end it seems like that is ok

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You completely, absolutely 100%... didn't get it.
But keep smiling bosses down.

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You completely, absolutely 100%... didn't get it.
But keep smiling bosses down.

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I will and I 100% did get it but just because we disagree on the need of add-ons you like to believe I don't it's ok dear

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As a member of the “PCMR”, I fully agree.

Except, one small problem. We still need a final solution to console players who can’t use ACT. Square Enix would panic if we ended support for PS4/5 players because they care about money. I know WE don’t care about revenue, but the suits do. So we need to implement enough social pressure to ostracize console players into not even trying endgame content. Problem is, Square Enix is working against that. Yoshida is pressuring people to play 100% vanilla as proof of authenticity for their clears. The JP community already feels very, very strongly about add-ons and parsing because of the association with cheating. People are working against you and this’ll be difficult for you to accomplish. Furthermore, ACT doesn’t have a feature like DBM that alerts party members that it’s on. The most people can do is kick those without logs, but…virtually everyone has logs.

How exactly can we fix the problem?

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Console players don't need ACT. You just need one person in the group that runs it. It is not ACT by itself that is most useful. When people talk about using ACT to improve, or using ACT to figure out dmg numbers for rotations or whatever, they are mostly talking about the logs that the ACT program generates. Running ACT you can see your dps numbers during the fight, sure, but that really does nothing for you in that moment. It's after the fight when the person running ACT uploads the logs and everyone can loom through them and break the fight down and see what they are doing second by second in the fight, that really matters. So along as one person in the group is on PC and running ACT, then the console players can also benefit from it.

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I will and I 100% did get it but just because we disagree on the need of add-ons you like to believe I don't it's ok dear

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You clearly didn't, you just made blanket statements like "EVERYONE should improve then!" that are completely ignoring the actual question and make it seem as if you got it but you didn't.
Tell me: if you have a few people that perform really well and a few who don't and together they're not enough to beat the boss. How fair is it to tell the group that everyone needs to improve? Because you're telling the good players that are already pulling their weight the exact same, unfiltered thing as the bad players who are currently holding the group back.
Do you get it now?

Same as the point about how rotations are even made in the first place - not by feelycrafting your way through with "probably just uncomfortable". My point (the one you didn't get) was that everyone who ever looked up rotations either directly from Balance or from guides that copied them (which... pretty much every guide does) indirectly profits from ACT and relies on it in a way.
It's just that not everyone has the balls to admit it and prefer to live in their little fairy world where they are above such dirty things as parsers.

But by all means, keep trying to make it about "epeen" when I never mentioned that in any way. Maybe it helps you sleep at night, who knows.

Calling me "dear" already? I didn't know you liked me so much by the way.