The Real Problem with Parsers

[Aiselia]

Having a parser may have pointed out to him that his DPS was absolutely abysmal long before though and made him go look at what was wrong.

The game flat out states that Piety is for MP, Mind is for healing, and Dex is for increasing damage for Bards.

According to the screenshot of the person's lodestone profile, they have a 60 DRG, which means it's not even their first class.

In the time it took to level a character to 60, they either never bothered to learn what stats actually do or just plain didn't care. Now, given that their lodestone profile screenshot also shows an accessory with a purple gem (Dex, because Amethyst jewelry gives dex) but what appears to be Hard Leather Wristbands (level 17 accessory but has Dex) and an empty ring slot, I'd say that the more likely scenario is that they don't give a damn either way because they didn't even bother equipping a second ring or upgrading their bracelets for 30 levels.

In other words, a parser won't prove anything to them when they haven't even cared enough to fully equip themselves. Period.

Guilty until proven innocent, I like it.

Blame the people in this thread who outright state they want parsers so they can kick people out of their roulette runs for making them take 5-10 minutes longer. Blame the people in this thread who will attack someone's DPS without even ever having grouped with them before because assumptions. Very few of the pro-parser arguers have proven themselves to be mature enough to handle talking about parsers, much less use one and be allowed to call people out on it.

Personally I think people need to come up with better counter arguments than 'people are mean'

Except they don't, because it's a perfectly valid reason.

If you don't want to play with people with low DPS, the game isn't forcing you to. You are perfectly free to create groups for any and everything. Expert roulette and High level roulette even let you go as a fully premade group. Low level and trial roulette may not let you queue as a group, but you don't get anything from there that you couldn't get from running dungeons with a premade group.

Which is why "I want to be able to kick people out of MY roulette runs for wasting MY time" is a terrible argument on the side of parsers. Nobody forces you to run with them. You chose to roll the dice for what you get, you should have to live with it.

People like you wanting to shrug aside valid reasons because you can't argue against them is also why I came up with other reasons, not the least of which is "console limitations", which is allegedly why we didn't even have a TP bar for so long even though it was more objectively useful than knowing what bonus stat you're giving the party.

The point is, parsers over a period of time and constant use would let you see what you are doing

Yes, I know, and that's why I support parsers in a limited scope and am not against them. Which I already said. That you responded to. So you should know that. So you're wasting your time trying to convince me.

That also has nothing to do with people who have clearly cleared at least some Savage Alexander intentionally just mashing whatever because they don't care.

If they are it will cause a lot of people to think twice about what they do.

Or it will cause an increase in harassment reports. Whether they're acted on or not, that's GM time that has to be spent on stuff, which backlogs the GMs and makes what could be more important issues get pushed later, which then annoys the customers who want a fast response but can't get them because the GMs are too busy dealing with reports about people trashing them over their DPS.

Is a possibility of people caring about their DPS objectively worth the extra time and money that SE will have to spend on handling harassment tickets and a slower response time for potentially more important matters?