Stop the WoWificaton (ui mods)

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Originally Posted by Caurcas

...so you had to use a parser to confirm your rotation.

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I wanted to see if I could come up with a good one on my own without a parser. I did exactly that. Not the first time either. I've come up with rotations on the fly, did that in a savage raid once.

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Originally Posted by Tonkra

First time i hear that you need "data" to actually become a professional at a game, wow...

secondly dps doesnt tell you at which point of the rotation you fail.

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If you think that parsing solely calculates DPS numbers, it's safe to say you don't really understand the subject you're debating.

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Originally Posted by Tonkra

Oh strangely i come up with the same rotations by just playing the class over time and without watching tutorials :rolleyes: ... but well.

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Somehow I doubt someone with a NQ weapon equipped on their highest level job on lodestone has a particularly deep understanding of the game.

OK, muppets. There is so much jokes here that I have no idea where to start from.

- Most games DO NOT provide you calculated data of your DPS, even your very special and important WoW does not do that, you need Add On even there to do it.

- ToS are clear about third party tools and crying like baby or not, does not change ToS.

- There are ways for SE to find out if you are using third party tools ingame and I belive they do not because for most of the years the community was pretty careful to not allow tools that ruin other players expirience, but that started to change and we may lose any possibility to use ANY kind of modifications because of it if SE decides to go with the normal approach for modern online games and add anti cheat.

- You DO not need, never needed and never will need DPS metter to create rotations, become good or whatever in FF. What you need is brain to read the tooltips and dummy. If you are not sure between few rotations "Stone, Sky, Sea" have a great challanges to check what rotation works best.

- All battles are completed by minimum two groups in Square enix without any third party tools before release, so the argument that you need them to complete anything in FF is a childish joke. I was personally in a group cleaning savages on Minimal Item Level for two years and you can imagine how many "data mining" I was using to clear content on PS4, we never had a battle that we were unable to clear.

Go on and cry like a babies about your addons for a bit longer and SE will end up with anti cheat and you will forget about all your NSFW mods too :D

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Originally Posted by Sove92

How are you affected by UI mods?

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They're just a Karen.

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Originally Posted by Necromancer

REEEEE

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Are you feeling okay?

Imagine wanting DBM and the like in XIV. for real, you think you do, but you dont. It's a slippery slope for addons for sure. I've never needed to use one. I think the base UI is quite clean and customisable. I dont need neon colours and QoL features to breathe for me.

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Originally Posted by gotaname1

Are you feeling okay?

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they are having a bout of confirmation bias
time will tell if they recover

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Originally Posted by Lustre

Imagine wanting DBM and the like in XIV. for real, you think you do, but you dont. It's a slippery slope for addons for sure. I've never needed to use one. I think the base UI is quite clean and customisable. I dont need neon colours and QoL features to breathe for me.

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dbm already exists here

On the bright side, I actually love the fact that they acknowledge their vanilla UI is in general, only suffice at its most basic level. It's outdated. Something like allowing us to save up to 15 or 20 waymarks is a great potential QoL update considering some fight actually uses more than 1 waymarks. I see it as a sign that they WANT to improve it in coming updates so they can create a better experience for us all.

Folks often chimes in "It could've been worse.", but I don't think that makes much sense. Because why not "It could've been better!"? Don't you love the game? If so, don't you want to see improvement?

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Originally Posted by gotaname1

Are you feeling okay?

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Like they said, it's a quality joke. A commendable effort to hitch a ride into an on-going bandwagon, though.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Its not exactly ethical for them to use most anti-cheat software. That stuff scans your entire pc, opens up lots of security holes, and can cause so many issues.


These are some of the reasons they haven't.

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There are those kinds of anti-cheats as well, sure, but those aren't the only way to scan for 3rd party tools/mods from the user. For instance, you can simply scan RAM and active CPU processes. That alone would be enough to know if you're running ACT or what have you, and it would even pick up on all of your nude skins/textures too (among other mods, UI mods or not). And all without scanning a shred of your HDD/SSD.

SE doesn't even do that much though, hence the current Fight Club rule with modding.

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Originally Posted by MediArgentum

For instance, you can simply scan RAM and active CPU processes.

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Ohhh, it is not that easy. :) This is the reason why many anti-cheat-programs work like malicious rootkits. If the memory-scan-tool does not run with some special permissions then it is easy to hide processes from it. :) And look at the typical cheat-tools or ACT. They all need to run with Administrator rights. And if a tool runs with Administrator rights then it can do literary everything, even knocking out anti-cheat-tools. So the anti-cheat-tool need even more permissions than the Administrator so it cannot be disabled by a cheat-tool.


Cheers