Oh the irony in the recent live letter Q n A

[Catwho]

I am level 17 Arcanist and when I try to join the culinary guild it says I have to at least be a level 10 in my class. And I am putting this here because it wont let me create a new thread, which is stupid, how the hell are new players supposed to get help. Idiots.

You have to do your level 10 arcanist quest and get permission from the ACN guildmaster before you can join other guilds.

[DukeBurden]

Personally, I am SO happy Yoshi P told the players to essentially #getgood. Let's be honest, the Devs are VERY good about listening and making appropriate adjustments but they can't fix bad players. I'm willing to bet 95% of some of the problems players are experiencing are user errors. "Rotations are too hard" "Looking for Aether currents is too hard" "We need a token system for the token system" seriously!? Has the majority of the player base turned into entitled, spoiled brats that just want EVERYTHING handed to them? (MMOs are a timesink by nature before anyone says "we don't all have time to play the game for hours on end." If you can't put in the time and effort, MMOs aren't for you because this IS what MMOs are.) Have people just stopped trying to put in time and effort? I guarantee you if they made this game any easier, people would start complaining that it's TOO easy and where's the challenge. The game is challenging enough as it is and the first time they introduced a unique fight(Steps of Faith) it got nerfed. I'm really surprised The Chrysalis didn't get a nerf. Sometimes... SOMETIMES! Something requires work. It requires effort. It requires that hardship so when you finally master a fight, a job, or finally get that piece of loot you've grinding for, it's that much more satisfying. Stop asking for things to be easier and just put in some work! I understand somethings are just broken right out of the gate but also, sometimes you just have a bad luck streak. That doesn't just apply to FFXIV, it applies to RL. Deal with it. Thank you, Yoshi P. The more you say "no" to a spoiled brat, the faster they learn to deal with problems rather than have them dealt for them.

[Sylve]

They tell you to play better, put in dps checks everywhere, but ban the usage of parsers.

How can one know what they're doing is any better or worse than if they did it another way, without some way to measure?

Of course, because people are wont to look at the DPS number, look at the lowest and kick them.
Because people try to use dummy numbers as proof of what we should be doing in the middle of a raid fight where we're dodging AoEs, killing adds, using mechanics etc.

The best reason to not give us parsers is because we literally do not need them.
Would it be nice to know our exact dps output at any given second? Sure would be.
Is it required to clear content? absolutely not.

If you have the minimum ilvl required to enter a dungeon/raid, you have the minimum dps/healing required to beat that content.
With gear being linear, our DPS is purely based on skill. How well you can play your job under duress in a boss fight.

We have the tools to beat the bosses, a built in parser would be entirely pointless outside of micromanaging your rotation.

Better = killed it quicker than your last try (obviously within the same group)
Worse = you didn't kill it.

I'm not sure why you need to see the exact numbers for making the boss dead.

[Jayjohn]

Yo bros, its called guildhests

Teaches you everything you need to know about end game dps, heals, and raiding

Get gud

[Bal]

I think both the rotation lass an a parser would be good. But if they gave us a parser let it show only your dps. Like for a dps check In fight let it show that you need to be doin 900 dps or what ever to do your part of the fight that way u know if ur doing ur job well or not an if ur in a group then u can share your dps if u want to that way u can say hey guys I did my part or sorry we died it was partly my fault. But the rotation class idea I would love to have cuz I know my tank dps sucks but am not sure what to do an would love to know on ps4 where I stand really

[Sylve]

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Except then you would have people looking at their own numbers and saying "Well MY dps is 1000, therefore, it cannot possibly be me who caused that wipe!"
When in actuality, they were so focused on their own personal DPS, they failed to switch to the adds or move away from an avoidable AoE.

Then of course, with no way to check if someone was telling the truth about their numbers you won't ever find out who is really underperforming anyway.

Right now, with no parsers available, every DD wonders "Did i do enough DPS? Could i have done better?"
Now you have 4-5 DDs all trying harder.

If you so desperately need to know your DPS, there's programs for that. But lets not go the way of many other MMOs where the almighty DPS Meter rules everything.

[BlaiseArath]

Yo bros, its called guildhests

Teaches you everything you need to know about end game dps, heals, and raiding

Get gud

Guildhests, thats a good one lol. My god.

[AltanRapsied]

Snip.

*bigthumbup*

[NoctisShiva]

The rotation-guides could help , sure, but i think the main problem with the bad players is that they dont even read the skills description or think a bit about them, for example with nins, i've seen plenty of them not using ta and when i ask why not they say you cant use them if your not invisible , sure they're right about that but you can get there by using suiton, but sometimes i think they only look at the potency and think , raiton for ninjutsus for example, its the highest potency so i need only that one ( and many not even cast huton) same goes for dots / slashing debuff

[Parryacg]

There [is] a thing called reading the tooltip.