This is absolutely ridiculous (DPS CHECK RANT)

[Galgarion]

Going along with the original poster's sentiments, I think that it is an unfair waste of everyone's time to have a raid itself be the actual dps check. You should know beforehand whether or not you can thrive in the content you're seeking to play in, and since that can't done with parsing (officially) there should be some sort of mandatory timed guildhest that gate-checks the content for us. It should be for single players, and it should be difficult for those lacking the equipment and rotation necessary to succeed. When you fail, you should be provided with tips and instructions on how to improve your performance. "Hey have you considered using this combat buff to improve your attack power?" "Eating foods can bestow a variety of helpful buffs. Try eating something that increases your strength." Yes, it's hand-holding, but the popularity of this game means there many, many new players who haven't got the slightest clue what they're doing, and they really need the help. They also need to know how and why they're dragging their groups down, and a system like this would save a lot of raid leaders the embarrassment of having to be the "bad guy" who kicks them.

[Mikhaill]

Something that would help is an official parser. That way we could tell who is messin up and where and help them improve ; ;

This is a horrible idea and you already know it's horrible. I'm not going to get torn to pieces because some ass want's to tell me I suck at what I'm doing
and get kicked. No one is going to help me or anyone, they will chew us up and spit us out in doodoo.
What could work for those who wants to improve is a player parser where no one else but themselves can see their scores.
If it's on the low side, they can seek help from others or friends/fc and practice with them. Not go into DF with randoms and get cursed at from hell.
I would use it and see what I could do...but you can't force people to use it and there will still be bad players. You cannot fix laziness.

But DPS races like that aren't fun, at all to me.
Most of the time you're just pointing fingers at who's doing bad at a guess.
Also, healers are becoming so ridiculous that they NEED to DPS too while everyone is on the brink of death.
So you're taking a chance to meet a req. and hope everyone lives and pop a quick heal on Cleric Stance if that.

[ckc22]

The entire idea that all the endgame content has tight dps checks right now and yet there is no (legitimate) way for dps themselves or the party to know what they are putting out and no one is allowed to talk about the situation is the epitome of ridiculousness.

[ValkyrieL]

I would like more to speak against this so call high dps checks.

*Faceroll MSQ
*Faceroll Dungeons
*Faceroll Alex NM
*Faceroll 24 man raids
*Easy Ex Primals

What the hell more do ya want ffs.

I hope SE never listens to this vocal forum minority that wants easy content.
only decent challenge left are 8 Man savage/coil raids and EX. primals.

[Galgarion]

I would like more to speak against this so call high dps checks.

*Faceroll MSQ
*Faceroll Dungeons
*Faceroll Alex NM
*Faceroll 24 man raids
*Easy Ex Primals

What the hell more do ya want ffs.

I hope SE never listens to this vocal forum minority that wants easy content.
only decent challenge left are 8 Man savage/coil raids and EX. primals.

They want the gear. It's envy, plain and simple. Hell, I want the gear. But I'm going to go work for it, like a normal person.

[Izsha]

I would like more to speak against this so call high dps checks.

*Faceroll MSQ
*Faceroll Dungeons
*Faceroll Alex NM
*Faceroll 24 man raids
*Easy Ex Primals

What the hell more do ya want ffs.

I hope SE never listens to this vocal forum minority that wants easy content.
only decent challenge left are 8 Man savage/coil raids and EX. primals.

Now now, not everything is faceroll. Didn't you see the 'nerf garuda story mode' thread on this page!?

Once the get past garuda anyway, they faceroll 99% of the game, they try Bismark ex or savage faust and get rekt. The only possible reason theu could loose is because the fights are broken. So the only reasonable solution is to come to the OF and beg SE to 'fix' these fights.

[bideogames]

implement a boss mechanic that locks out a single dd and they have to dps down some ifrit nail facsimile by themselves. if they don't do some amount of dps that's reasonable for whatever level the boss is, they die. boom done.

[UBERHAXED]

@uberhaxed
I'm sure you train for running events by glancing at the position of the sun in the sky. Wo needs stop watches anyway! Everyone knows any deviation from your coddled track practice is a loss in speed when dealing with real world terrain! You don't need a stop watch to know that!

Information is not bad. Accurate information is always better than fluffy guestimated and human 'observation' (which there are tons of psychological and physical limitations that color what we think we are doin vs what were ACTUALLY doing).

Didn't know you write equations to run. Let's stick to the topic. The mathematically best rotation is the highest dps you can achieve. Anything other than that is not. You know what you didn't do (mistakes in the fight) to fit the best rotation and you don't need reinforcement so verify 290-200= 90 potency lost. DPS should be only considered in potency. Anything other than that, and you are relying on random factors for your dps. And regardless, rotation doesn't change when gear changes, so if you were doing perfect before changing to a better weapon, then you will be doing proportionally the same after. If you don't have the attention to look at the screen to observe your own moves then you should not be playing in groups which depend on you to pay attention to things like mechanics. Let me guess? You use calculators to verify you can add correctly two numbers below 1000?

[Sapphic]

I think there are far too many "dps check" mechanics and not enough skill/learning based mechanics.

Why I preferred, overall, SCoB as it was heavily mechanics based, Gear only took you so far (pre destroying it with nerfs and echo on top). First coil got much easier as you geared up, FCoB was the same. Alex savage will be exactly like that too. A1(S) in avg ilvl 200 will be a breeze. SCoB was different, as it was more heavily reliant on mechanics than gear checks. Hence having to over nerf the mechanics to put into DF which werent done with either first Coil or FCoB.

[Tarta]

I put a suggestion that skirts the issue of DPS checks in the feedback section.
I also included a fix for the damage meter hatetrain/fear/dontputthisinmyfinalfantasies.
Go check it out in Feedback section and tell me if that's a good idea or if some would be put off by colors.