The Real Problem with Parsers

[Erim-Nelhah]

Which means what to the 10 years of complaints of elitism from the game?

I've stated that the video mirrors my own experience with WoW's LFD/LFR. My experience might not mirror that of many others, or it actually might. I don't know, and I don't have an active WoW sub anymore with which to go ask them. I do, howver, believe that it does.

... and still nobody has managed to state an objective benefit of having a party parser over a personal parser ...

You want objective benefits? Total Party DPS, total party DPS per phase, and the ability to see total party DPS at any given point in the fight (along with other statistics like HPS, Damage Taken, Mitigation, and Deaths, that a good parser can provide). You mention a share option for the personal parser: That works, provided that someone sharing their parse shares it live, not as a snapshot/total, and that the PS3 can also "share", regardless of its ability to actually show the parser. As for PS3 limitations....the PS3 may end up being limited to the "dummy parser" that's already being worked on because of that. 512M of shared ram just isn't enough - not even for a personal parser.

People should not be joining Dusk Vigil with a NQ 115 weapon (basically nq = i90 weapon or less) or ATMA (LOL U READ THAT RIGHT, AN ATMA WEAPON). They will be full 120 gear and using some garbage tier weapon because they dont understand how stats work in the game.

Ok, then what are they suppoed to be using?

• i110 Soldiery weapon? The easiest way to get one is through questing. A quick check of the quests on ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com reveals that you can get 3 such weapons while doing the story quests, which don't include options for the new classes, and further you have to choose 1 weapon each from 3 groups, which may not reflect the extra classes you want to play. And if you finished the MSQ before HW came out, the quests aren't an option. That leaves people with buying one. The i100 version (only slightly better than an i100 atma) costs 1300 Poetics plus an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone - which only drops from ST, T6, and T7, none of which are trivial to unlock for a newer player, much less run. Oh, and then you have to upgrade it to i110, which requires you to do Hunts or ST for the items, and isn't something a new player is likely to figure out how to do on his/her own.
• Poetics weapon? Those also cost 1300 Poetics, but instead of an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone they require an Encrypted one. Say hello to your choice of T11 or all of CT (twice if you're new, since you have to complete it once to unlock the weekly). Again, neither of these are trivial even to unlock, much less run.
• A decent Primal Weapon? Say hello to Leviathan and/or Shiva EX, both non-trivial fights even at 60. GL with the drop (maybe Ramuh as well, but he doesn't always even drop a weapon).
• HQ Crafted weapon? Last time I looked, the i115 HQ weapons, when crafters even put them up on the MB, cost as much as their i150 HQ counterparts, if not more.

Look at it this way: At least they visited the Crozier (or the Forgotten Knight in the case of DRKs) first, or bothered to get their relic weapon and upgrade it a bit, and didn't come in with just an i55 weapon (yes, I've heard of people running much harder content than DV with that kind of gear).

--Erim Nelhah