Excellent, parsers are now bannable

[Failia]

Honestly, you can more or less tell if a DPS is doing their job or not simply by watching them. If you have a monk that is flying around a mob, they're likely doing their darnest to get as much DPS out as they can. If you have a black mage just standing there using the same skill over and over..likely not so much.

[LexSunfire]

using them is bannable if you say hey i have a parsers i can report you and get you suspended. its a hush hush fight club thing yoshi p has said this already. if you use a parser and never say anything about it you won't get in trouble but the moment you say i have parser it's reportable even if you didn't question someones dps.

that's what i'm saying. if using a parser is bannable offense than Yoshi p would have said using a parser, even when no one knows that you're using a parser, will get you banned. instead he said be hush hush about it. obviously if you're going around flaunting it then you deserve whatever consequences come your way. if you can't be responsible then you deserve what you get.

[Niwashi]

Sure you can measure dps by seeing how fast the encounter goes but there are twice as many dps as there are tanks or healers so their performance are not as easily estimated.

But that is the part of their performance that matters to the game. If the mobs are dropping, the DPS are doing their jobs. If party members are not dropping, then the tank and healer are doing their jobs. Effectiveness is seen in the game itself, not by some number a parser could spit out. Parsers are just a distraction from the more important and useful measures of players' effectiveness.

if using a parser is bannable offense than Yoshi p would have said using a parser, even when no one knows that you're using a parser, will get you banned.

There's a difference between breaking the rules and getting caught breaking the rules. Using a parser is against the rules regardless of whether you say anything about it or not, but SE has no way of punishing someone for a violation unless they know about it. The only way they'll know that you're breaking this particular rule is if you tell people that you are, so that's the only time the rule becomes enforceable.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

But that is the part of their performance that matters to the game. If the mobs are dropping, the DPS are doing their jobs. If party members are not dropping, then the tank and healer are doing their jobs. Effectiveness is seen in the game itself, not by some number a parser could spit out. Parsers are just a distraction from the more important and useful measures of players' effectiveness.

If the tank fails, then they know right away that he/she needs to change their strategy.
If the healer fails, then they know right away that he/she needs to change their strategy.
If the dps fails, they are usually blamed collectively without really knowing individually if they were doing something wrong.

Granted in most cases you can have one or two dps slacking and still conquer a fight. But this can become a real handicap in the more challenging encounters and so if an inefficiency exists it's better to correct it early on than waiting for a wipe on something harder. If an in-game parser could be designed in a way that didn't encourage competition or harassment I would be all for it. From my experience in other MMOs these tools have been very useful in increasing performance.

[Yumi_umi]

The only thing that will effect your dps is
-gear
-rotation
-buffs/debuffs
If you got the rotation down thats good.
Gearing up ? Also important.
Did u get hit with a debuff that lowers ur attack?
Other than those 3 key points, parsers are un needed.
No enemies to this day and age in FF ( excluding t4-9 coil )
Should catch u by surprise.
Its all cut and paste and all too predictable.
The only thing that would affect ur dps is when
1) you miss ( insufficient accuracy)
2) rng damage.
Sometimes you'll hit for 500 then the next you'll hit for 480 then after 539.
So whoever uses parsers should be banned cuz they r using an outside program that is not part of the game.
Plain and simple.