It's official Parsers are illegal in FFXIV

[ItzKris]

If the people worried about being kicked for low DPS (or getting kicked for low DPS) spent half of the time they spend bitching about it on improving their performance, they would have absolutely nothing to complain about.,,

>Assuming worried about being kicked
>Assuming low dps

[Chiramu]

Using a DPS metre to make sure you are doing a good amount of DPS on a boss fight is good imo. I guess as long as you don't bully other people for doing too low DPS (though everyone should be pulling their weight).

It is scary because I always want to know if I'm doing the right amount of DPS or not, having this loom over me for wanting to make sure I'm not being a burden is awful.

[Raenryong]

>Assuming worried about being kicked
>Assuming low dps

I have never seen a good player be worried about a parser. It's always the super low DPS slackers.

[ItzKris]

I have never seen a good player be worried about a parser. It's always the super low DPS slackers.

Im a healer, I dont dps, our mistakes are out on the table (can easily see overhealing, weak heals, mistakes, etc) and even i'm worried about the toxicity that will come from parsers. Many others dislike parsers for the same reason even though they aren't dps classes. This shows that its not always super low DPS slackers.

[Raenryong]

If it's any reassurance, I've played MMOs where parsers are the norm and widely used, and haven't even seen a single incident of toxicity. That is, unless you count kicking someone from a raid group for poor DPS when it was explicitly stated that x dps was required before joining - and I don't consider this toxic. You know what you signed up for, and if you don't meet the requirements, you are bringing the group down.

[Gardes]

Using third-party programs, parsers, or other tools

So using a vpn..

to conduct actions players would not normally be able to do in the game

to play the game smoothly (something some people are unable to do without a vpn)..

is a violation of the Terms of Service, and will be dealt with strict disciplinary action.

is a bannable offence?

[BamDeafPie]

Then how can we know and improve our dps that phasers are banned? Thanks a lot se. You have added a new reason to my list of reasons why I unsubbing.

[Seif]

I wonder why that is. Are there some aspects that they're trying to hide like all mobs sharing copy-pasted stats or classes being duplicates of each other in output stats?

[Sove92]

So using a vpn..


to play the game smoothly (something some people are unable to do without a vpn)..


is a bannable offence?

VPN is okay.

The type of software you are describing in this thread doesn't appear to directly control anything for the FFXIV client, and as such isn't breaking any of the rules. Similar to other programs, 3rd party software is used at your own risk, and we recommend you employ your best judgement when running software not mentioned in the user agreement.

[Lexia]

So was using windower in XI but I've never heard anyone getting banned for using that in the 8-9 years it's been around.

Most kept their mouth shut about using a windower but yes SE did have some rounds of banning people for using it.