SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Gormogon]

And now that I think of it, why do we even have training dummies but no in game DPS meter, that's like having a car with no speedometer.

You can actually see the kind of damage your auto-attacks, dots, and abilities do w/o buffs. You can numbers crunch from there.

[Assirra]

You can actually see the kind of damage your auto-attacks, dots, and abilities do w/o buffs. You can numbers crunch from there.

Sorry but i am no cpu that can "crunch numbers" like that on the fly.

[Appleh4x]

You can actually see the kind of damage your auto-attacks, dots, and abilities do w/o buffs. You can numbers crunch from there.

The game doesn't inherently give you any way of telling how much damage your DoT effects do. If you used a parser you would be able to tell though. Why are you even commenting in this thread trying to say content doesn't need it when you don't even do high end content to know whether or not it would be needed? You haven't even beat T6 but you claim to know that people don't need to parse for savage T9? You're basically being an armchair quarterback for a game you have no actual knowledge of (the game being relevant endgame raids.)

[SongJoohee]

The game doesn't inherently give you any way of telling how much damage your DoT effects do. If you used a parser you would be able to tell though.

This is actually false, all parsers currently have no way of getting DOT damage and instead calculate an estimate, this is the reason people get slightly different results in parses for the same encounter.

[Appleh4x]

This is actually false, all parsers currently have no way of getting DOT damage and instead calculate an estimate, this is the reason people get different results in parses for the same encounter.

The parser with FFXIV in the name simulates DoTs the one that is three letters actually gets the damage from in game memory. Anyone serious about parsing uses the latter, people only use the former for plugins like that crap radar

[SongJoohee]

The parser with FFXIV in the name simulates DoTs the one that is three letters actually gets the damage from in game memory. Anyone serious about parsing uses the latter, people only use the former for plugins like that crap radar

No it doesn't. If you look in-depth into someones parse it even says "Simulated DoTs (Out)", all the dots do the same damage when in-game they have some slight variation like every attack, with adjustments made depending on which buffs and debuffs are up.

[Appleh4x]

No it doesn't. If you look in-depth into someones parse it even says "Simulated DoTs (Out)", all the dots do the same damage when in-game they have some slight variation like every attack, with adjustments made depending on which buffs and debuffs are up.

This is a quote from the plugin author on Reddit: " it is real data from the game and not simulated. I did some testing in CT and it performed very well, even with 5+ ground aoes running."

[SongJoohee]

This is a quote from the plugin author on Reddit: " it is real data from the game and not simulated. I did some testing in CT and it performed very well, even with 5+ ground aoes running."

That was in regards to Flaming Arrow and Shadow Flare ticks.

[Yurai]

This is a quote from the plugin author on Reddit: " it is real data from the game and not simulated. I did some testing in CT and it performed very well, even with 5+ ground aoes running."

So you're actually admitting to using it, here on the official forums, with your actual character? Not that I'm against parsers or anything, but if they want to, they could probably ban you for that. Might want to edit your post to be a bit more... Vague.

[MeiUshu]

The game doesn't inherently give you any way of telling how much damage your DoT effects do. If you used a parser you would be able to tell though. Why are you even commenting in this thread trying to say content doesn't need it when you don't even do high end content to know whether or not it would be needed? You haven't even beat T6 but you claim to know that people don't need to parse for savage T9? You're basically being an armchair quarterback for a game you have no actual knowledge of (the game being relevant endgame raids.)

If you can kill a mob fast enough not to wipe, that means DPS is enough, whether some are lower then others isnt important is it not? in a group the collective is important not the individual. One stronger will compensate a weaker, if all are weak it is a fail, and all will know and if you make it well it means that COLLECTIVELY your DPS was enough for it..the one weaker will sooner or later find out if his or her dps is low or not. No need for parsers for it, right ?

The end of the story is...beyond all you say is forbidden, ify ou want to use it and are caught using it and banned dont complain...saying parsers are necessary ..sorry they are not.

Mei