@ sirdarts
stop acting like games can't be played w/o parser. I play and improve just fine w/o 1.
@ chif
I'm gonna lean and think your a troll, for starters you made a poor reasoning behind that a galaka << which isn't a final fantasy race (its galka and in ff11) all your replies read that your just pulling them our ur bum. Noned of stuff you said makes any sense.
@ thread
The reason I dislike parser is what happen in DCUO everyone rolled as a dps stance of their power and didn't work together at all, in WoW players became very exclusionary, and in ff11 people started to rag on your play style if you gearswapped or not.
I'm not insecure over my numbers, I personally have my battle info turned off but I still strive to improve, you don't need to be doing stuff wrong to seek to improve, and you don't need a parser to see your numbers to improve. You also don't need to have a parser to see what your party is doing.
You can tell if mobs are not dying fast enough for starters, you can see everyone hits easy, and you can infact turn on a chat log battle text to show your attacks or your groups attacks. What I dislike and have been fighting against is plsayers who say you can't play a game with out a parser or you fail.
If a personal parser system is added people will use that as a shi starting reaction to a wipe. I can see someone like sirdarts saying things like "wtf did you guys parse on the dummy? then saying LIES cuz we wiped" who would then kick the other dps. That type of behavior shouldn't be accepted in duty finder. Infact 9 times outa 10 it isn't "low dps" that can cause a wipe its people not working together.
Remember dps is dependent on too many factors, and shouldn't be a judgment call on who is good or not. Someone with a high dps can just be as much cause for a wipe then the supposed low dps. Alot of it comes from learning the content, not just the class. And learning the content comes from grinding it and experimenting when to push yourself and when to pull back.
And lastly having a paser system will not do any benefits, people who want to improve do improve regardless, people who don't, won't. Enforcing a parser will not change that. What it will do is is create exclusion in DF, which is the last thing we need. As parser systems are not very newbie friendly so if you have new players (who will not parse high as their are learning) people would just boot them, and site "difference in playstyle" as reason.
Which did happen in WoW/DCUO
Also on the terms of WoW a big reason this stuff wasn't an issue was due to addons being enforced by the community, which i know 5 that displayed your rotation, and what/when to use buffs and where to stand in boss fights.
Also you can't always say/prove that the parser is the reason behind optimal rotation and buff use, some of that came from experimentation on content and seeing how fast the mobs die.