Quote Originally Posted by Jetstream_Fox View Post
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I honestly don't understand how you cannot tell that parsing would assist you in improving yourself. You won't notice if doing "x" improves your DPS by 50 if your dps hovers around 1000. With a parser you would, then you'd work that into your rotation. Then you could try "y" which also improves your DPS by another 50, and again you wouldn't notice the difference without a parser. However, after those two things you'd be doing 10% more damage than before.

It's definitely up to debate. However, I'd rather play in this elitist community than the lazy community we currently play in. I'd also like to be able to complement people for great DPS in dungeons without the risk of being banned. I'd like to have an in-game parser so that PS4/3 users could have it and see how they are doing without having to ask a PC player. I'd like to be able to identify issues and address them rather than blindly failing DPS checks over and over again without any idea why.

I've personally played WoW, FFXIV, GW, GW2, and Tera. I wasn't able to parse in GW2 and it, by far, had the most elitist community. WoW has, conversely, the least elitist community that I've played with. Obviously everyone's experience will differ, but I've seen infinitely more elitist people here than WoW. I recently tried out WoW again and said "Hey, never been to this dungeon before" and it was an older one now. Everyone said "No problem, just follow along ". I see a lot of elitism in FFXIV and not having a parser doesn't do anything to help. It's a figment of your imagination if you believe that elitism is not in this game due to it.

Anyway whatever, we don't agree. I sure hope they add a team-based parser and not something where you can only see your own dps or a special area to test in.